On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:37 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jon Masters (jcm(a)redhat.com) said:
> I know you don't like the bin32/bin64 idea, but I think it's the only
> real way to "solve" having both binary flavors of a package installed at
> the same time, if that needs to be solved.
I'm of the opinion that that doesn't need to be solved.
I'm not entirely convinced people don't want it solved - but
whatever ;-) I still think a bin32/bin64 would be the only way to
actually address that, if it were to be addressed. I'll shutup.
> The lesser issue - more
> easily solved - is that of libraries, where I think a general consensus
> to split them out into -libs packages over time would do the trick.
Yep. The problem is that, as it stands now, this requires changes to yum
and the metadata to handle upgrades right.
Right. I guess I was just frustrated before when I jumped into this
thread, because this does seem to be the solution, so I would like to
see it happen - my only reason for pushing for meetings/whatever is that
we need some kind of mandate/policy to implement such a change. Right?
Jon.