Re: Multilib Middle-Ground

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Denis Leroy wrote:


Stripping of pathname-based and package-name based dependencies I can understand, but not the library deps.

Are they the same across all RPM based systems?

Yes, they are and the third party packages have no excuse if they are deliberately disabling the automatic dependency mechanisms.

It's not that simple. VMware does this for a simple reason: they want a single RPM that works on *all* distros. Essentially it's like static linking (except they don't, they just ship their own dependencies). VMware would otherwise have fairly complex dependencies (gtkmm comes to mind) that would force them to provide probably a different RPM for each <distro,version> pair... There's simply no easy way to distribute closed-source softare for Linux, as we all know.

I'd say that applies equally to open source software too, unless you think of building special packages for every distribution and version and arranging storage/mirrors/bandwidth for all of those variations as being easy.

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