Multilib Middle-Ground

[Les Mikesell]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> 
>>  I'd say a more accurate description is that jpackage nosrc packages work
>> around the peculiar packaging and PATH requirements of distributions that
>> stubbornly refuse to standardize that crap and make it difficult for their
>> users to install programs of their choice.
> 
> Please point me to a comprehensive standardization initiative that I'm
> not already aware of in this area.

It's just depressing that no one is interested in this sort of 
cooperation and would prefer to force every possible application to be 
rebuilt/repackaged and re-distributed for every version of every distro 
to deal with the weirdness they each add.  What's the point?  Once 
something works it should never have to be changed.  At most, new shared 
libs should fix up anything it needs.

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   Les Mikesell
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