Re: multiarch status update

["Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On 5/15/06, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> "Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 5/14/06, Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com> wrote:
> >> > > The Linux kernel requires a full path for #! scripts.  This makes
> >> >
> >> > One option would be to improve the Linux kernel. :)
> >>
> >> And make scripts incompatible with any other unix kernel?
> >
> > No and that's not what I said. I'm quite sure there is a solution that
> > doesn't break compatibility.
>
> Then that solution may not require a change in the kernel and must use
> '#! /full/path/to/binary'. Meaning: It must be what we use now.

Not true. For example, the kernel could be changed to pick the right
Python binary if it sees #!/usr/bin/python.
Then you have a backwards compatible solution.