Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The right way to approach this I think is to target specific third
party applications which we want to work out of the box. Say for
example, Flash and VMWare Workstation. Surely there are others, but I
think we can arrive at a reasonably sane set. We then add these
packages to the default install image.
Would you include the following in your "sane" set?
IDL
MatLab
LabView
Mathematica
SAS/IML and SAS/STAT
nag.com library products
any number of proprietary fortran and C compilers
Throw in Sun's 32 bit jvm's too.
Would it be possible to grow rpm meta-packages of 32-bit lib
dependencies for common applications as they become known with some
consistent name convention so something like
yum install vmware_32bit_libs
would fix things instead of having to know each needed file and which
package provides it?
Also, what's going to happen in an upgrade of a machine with existing 32
bit apps? Will the older libs stay? Will they work?
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