On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:37 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jon Masters (jcm@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > I know you don't like the bin32/bin64 idea, but I think it's the only > > real way to "solve" having both binary flavors of a package installed at > > the same time, if that needs to be solved. > > I'm of the opinion that that doesn't need to be solved. I'm not entirely convinced people don't want it solved - but whatever ;-) I still think a bin32/bin64 would be the only way to actually address that, if it were to be addressed. I'll shutup. > > The lesser issue - more > > easily solved - is that of libraries, where I think a general consensus > > to split them out into -libs packages over time would do the trick. > > Yep. The problem is that, as it stands now, this requires changes to yum > and the metadata to handle upgrades right. Right. I guess I was just frustrated before when I jumped into this thread, because this does seem to be the solution, so I would like to see it happen - my only reason for pushing for meetings/whatever is that we need some kind of mandate/policy to implement such a change. Right? Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
