David Woodhouse writes: > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:36 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > 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 don't think it _does_ need to be solved. We just shouldn't need > to have both versions of a binary installed at the same time. There is one case where we do. Sometimes people will have a need for both 32-bit and 64-bit Java virtual machines. For example, one user may have a small Java application that runs best on a 32-bit VM (or maybe even has a native library that hasn't been ported to 64 bits) and at the same time another user is running an application that needs the huge memory of a 64-bit VM. In that case, you need two binaries called java, one 32-bit and one 64-bit. I don't think there's any way around this. Andrew. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, UK Registered in England and Wales No. 3798903 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
