On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:29:40PM -0800, 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? > > MatLab > Mathematica > nag.com library products There are 64bit versions of both so there is no need to install the 32bit vesrions. > any number of proprietary fortran and C compilers Most of them will also have 64bit versions as well. > IDL > LabView > SAS/IML and SAS/STAT No idea but I will not be surprised if 64bit versions are available for them as well. Most often than not they don't run out of the box in fedora without some playing around anyway (you have to label some libs textrel_shlib_t, provide links for things like /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt because they ship their own version of libX11 which expects files under /usr/X11R6 etc.) Kostas -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
