On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 09:52 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Jon Masters wrote: > > It obviously was a kludge. And a great one - Jeremy, Bill, and other > > *smart* people (so don't get me wrong guys!) had to come up with a > > solution at some point when this came up, but it's long since time to > > take a big breath and think about a longer term fix. > > > > Can we agree that needs to happen? If so, I'll happily actually get > > involved in implementing a fix, as I've said to these folks in face to > > face conversations about multilib before! > > Why don't we just install 64 bit packages (on x86-64)[1]? I've been > running Fedora 7 & 8 systems like this for ages without any problems. I > can't see why it isn't the default, with kludges only for the people who > want 32 bit packages on their shiny 64 bit processor. > [1] Or just 32 bit packages on ppc64. It's still going to be the case that many people will want packages from both, for a long time, and in some cases that makes more sense - it's not always better to have 64-bit versions. For these reasons, I think a better solution is needed, and needed as a matter of urgency. That solution should also be well documented, with very obvious policy document(s) - not just mailing list posts - that make it very easy for package maintainers to understand. It really is time to fix this properly - can we get a working group setup? Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
