On 01/05/2017 01:36 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 5 January 2017 at 13:31, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>> You just described a fundamental change to how people would need to
>> build 32-bit applications locally. They don't have to install a
>> VM/chroot to do that today, they would in a containerized multilib
>> solution. I don't think it's fair to claim "Building of software
>> shouldn't be changed at all in most cases" with this proposal.
>>
>> Remember, not all software is built in mock or even as RPMs. End user
>> software developers will be impacted by the removal of existing
>> multilib.
>>
>> josh
> Sadly will we be hearing these same arguments 10 years from now...
Yes. We will. And in 10 years from now the inevitable backlash against
containers because they aren't new and nifty and had all these warts
that come from real life will be in full swing. [This doesn't mean
that containers will go away any more than they were completely new in
the first place but ideas that Multics (and other OS's had) in the
1960/70's.] This is how software goes.
Well we will be retired at that point, and playing shuffle board.