Multilib Middle-Ground

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> 
>> 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?
> 

I don't see how this would be easier to maintain that the whitelist 
solution. I think it would actually be a lot harder in the long run.

/Thomas