Fighting the i386 plague

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:26:53AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 January 2007 07:12, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I just don't think creating 2K -libs packages or -docs packages is the more 
> sustainable solution.

Yes it doesn't seem viable to do it for all of them. Still, it's necessary
to do it for some.

> Fixing the rpm bug seems more appropriate.

It's not really a bug. It's a side effect of multilib that requires special
treatment. The trick is to implement this in rpm effectively.

Regards,

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
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