Am Donnerstag, den 08.06.2006, 10:03 -0700 schrieb Rick Stout: > > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> And in any case: Just copying the i386 version over to the x86-64 repo > >> because the maintainer couldn't fix it for x86-64 on it's own is the > >> wrong approach IMHO because then we might have a bunch of i386 packages > >> in the x86-64 soon just because maintainers were to lazy to fix their > >> stuff (or find someone interested in x86-64 to fix it). First: sorry, I didn't meant to be harsch. > I *have* looked into getting this fixed for x86_64. I have been part of > the freenx/nx project since 2004, and no one has successfully ran this > on x86_64. Okay. > I'm told that nxagent is not 64-bit safe, and that fixing it > would require somewhat of a rewrite. Great :-/ -- someone should tell the upstream developers that we're living in 2006 and most modern CPUs support the x86-64 extension. (someone probably already did). Well, that's life and we have to deal with it. > I also think that it's a little rash to determine that maintainers are > lazy because they have a package that does not work on all architectures. We had some of "lazy maintainers" that simply excluded x86_64 in the past and it took me and some others quite lot of work to fix most of them in the early days of Fedora Extras. Cu thl -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
