[F8/multilib] {,/usr}/{,s}bin64 (was: Split libperl from perl)

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Apr 26 09:27:00 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 11:21 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:56:33AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 10:24 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:03:00PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > > > > > [... Changing all specfiles by splitting out bin subpackages
> > > > > > > vs simply defining a new _bindir ...]
> > > > > > Yes, but it does involve much more work to do.
> > > > 
> > > > Packaging is hard. Let's go shopping.
> > > 
> > > No, the above is not hard to do, it is a straightforward thing to do
> > > that will occupy a full or more than one release cycle(s).
> > > 
> > > I prefer to get F8 with some new features as well and not only a mass
> > > review again. Which wil involve thre times as many packages as the FC
> > > merge review which we didn't manage to finish.
> > 
> > Actually, this one should be quite easy to automate.
> > 
> > We've spent too long trying to take short-cuts and do the easiest thing
> > in the _short_ term for multilib -- and it shows. It's time to start
> > doing it properly, IMHBCO.
> 
> Exactly and the proper thing for multilib is: Let it die, multiarch rulez!

Apparently you haven't understood what multilibs are.

Ralf





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