Multilib Middle-Ground

[Les Mikesell]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>>>> Stripping of pathname-based and package-name based dependencies I can 
>>>>> understand, but not the library deps.
>>>> Are they the same across all RPM based systems?
>>>>
>>> The library deps sorta have to be. The deps come out of what the program
>>> is linked to.
>>>
>>> as an example run:
>>> ldd /usr/bin/xterm
>>>
>>> and look at what it outputs
>>>
>> VMWare-server should probably be split into two packages.  Only the 
>> console portion needs the X libs and you can run it on a different 
>> machine, a different OS, or not at all, so it wouldn't make much sense 
>> for a run-time dependency for that part to prevent installation of the 
>> rest of the server.
> 
> umm, okay. But no one here controls the vmware package. Hell, speaking
> for just me, I don't even CARE about vmware.

I read that as "I don't care about fedora users" that want to run 
applications of their choice.  Whether that's what you mean or not, I 
suspect I'm not the only one who sees that as the end result.  If fedora 
doesn't care about its users it will simply be irrelevant. If you want a 
hint about how others feel, go to the distrowatch.com page and adjust 
the time span setting to something recent on the part that shows 
interest in various distributions.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com