Handling multilib
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 20 16:34:07 UTC 2007
David Woodhouse (dwmw2 at infradead.org) said:
> That makes a certain amount of sense. Although I don't really think we
> need to offer the "runtime" option -- what's the point in a bunch of
> libraries which never get used? Just pull them in if they're required,
> surely -- either by a -devel package or by an executable? Let the
> default be 'none', which gives you nothing but the special cases like
> gdb and strace.
Well, there *is* non-RPM software that you may want to support as
well (moreso on x86_64 than ppc64). Also, I suspect things like
PAM and NSS modules would be in the same bucket as gdb, strace.
Bill
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