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Re: multiarch status update



Bill Allombert <ballombe@master.debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 01:19:14AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>> I so far haven't seen any compelling arguments for multiarchifying the 
>> whole archive including all of */bin.
>
> Personnally I would favor a new files hierachy that allow every
> arch-dependend files to be co-installable. Even if we are not able to
> take full advantage of it at once, it seems saner and more forward-looking
> than only allowing libraries to be co-installable. This might also make
> easier to have this new scheme adopted by other OS.
>
> Cheers,

But would make it totaly incompatible with existing systems.

The library path is limited to a very few places that can be changed
globaly (ld, binutils, gcc) and then the multiarchified binaries will
still run on other systems and their binaries will run on
multiarch.

MfG
        Goswin



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