Multiarch crazyiness

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Oct 22 18:37:39 UTC 2007


Jon Masters (jcm at redhat.com) said: 
> 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'm of the opinion that that doesn't need to be solved.

> The lesser issue - more
> easily solved - is that of libraries, where I think a general consensus
> to split them out into -libs packages over time would do the trick.

Yep. The problem is that, as it stands now, this requires changes to yum
and the metadata to handle upgrades right.

Bill




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