Re: A More Radical Multi-Arch Counter-Proposal
"Julian Mehnle" <lists@mehnle.net> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
> > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 09:55:33PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > > Forget it. A chroot is out of the question. Noone is going for it.
> > > >
> > > > Multiarch is coming and its going to have /lib, /lib32 and/or /lib64
> > > > dpenending on the architecture involved.
> > >
> > > Is that not short-sighted? I already posted examples where multiple
> > > 32-bit architectures could be in use, for example. If we are going to
> > > the effort of making this support possible, why do we not do so in a
> > > more inclusive way, at little additional expense?
> >
> > You can think of something more or better but changing what has been
> > set for years will be realy hard. You have to get every other linux
> > distribution (or at least a majority) to agree on any change [...]
>
> Why?
Because otherwise debian is a small island of incompatibility. Firms
will produce their software as rpm for SuSe and RH amd64 and Debian
users will be left out.
MfG
Goswin
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