Multilib Middle-Ground

[Kostas Georgiou]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:29:40PM -0800, 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?
> 

> MatLab
> Mathematica
> nag.com library products

There are 64bit versions of both so there is no need to install the
32bit vesrions.

> any number of proprietary fortran and C compilers

Most of them will also have 64bit versions as well.

> IDL
> LabView
> SAS/IML and SAS/STAT

No idea but I will not be surprised if 64bit versions are available for
them as well.

Most often than not they don't run out of the box in fedora without some
playing around anyway (you have to label some libs textrel_shlib_t,
provide links for things like /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt because they ship
their own version of libX11 which expects files under /usr/X11R6 etc.)

Kostas