Fighting the i386 plague

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl
Wed Jan 24 12:12:47 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:23:27AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 January 2007 08:29, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > There's no reason that they should. With careful packaging it's possible
> > to have libraries (i.e. the only binaries that need to be multilib'd)
> > in separate packages.
> 
> So lets see some sustainable examples.

OpenIPMI (this one has packaging bugs, like .pc file(s) in -libs),
audit, bind, file and so on. Curiously enough, all of these have
static libs packaged in -devel, which - according to current packaging
guidelines - is a review blocker.

Regards,

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
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