Multilib Middle-Ground

[Kevin Kofler]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Would you mind leaving the 'p' word out of this discussion?  The same 
> principle applies to all software that isn't recompiled and repackaged 
> between every version, including the user's own and other programs where 
> source is available but you don't want to have to rebuild (if we did 
> want to recompile every week we'd be running gentoo...).

Unlike on Gentoo, the user doesn't have to rebuild the packages, only one 
packager has to do it and all the users just get the packages from the 
packager, be it from the Fedora repository or a third-party repository. The 'p' 
word comes into play because proprietary licenses tend to disallow or at least 
limit (e.g. no way to rebuild from source because you don't have it) 
repackaging, which is the real cause of your problem.

        Kevin Kofler