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Re: multiarch status update



"Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/15/06, Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@m4x.org> wrote:
>> Le Dim 14 Mai 2006 21:11, Olaf van der Spek a écrit :
>> > > - Why would you want to have both types installed simultaneously
>> > > anyway?
>> > >
>> > > For libraries the answer is simple, but multiarch applications
>> > > simply don't seem useful to me. The solution would be to either
>> > > forbid having
>> >
>> > Consider for example 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox with some extensions
>> > only available for 32-bit and others only for 64-bit.
>>
>> this is a dream. This also need that the application is able to deal
>> with the fact that it has configuration for the 32 and 64 bits version
>> coexisting cleanly.
>
> True. Did I say that it would be trivial?
> Or even a short-term solution?

Algorithmicaly it is trivial:

/etc/firefox/plugins.x86_64-linux-gnu
/etc/firefox/plugins.i486-linux-gnu

or /etc/x86_64-linux-gnu/firefox/...

>> given the crap that is firefox configuration, you won't be able to have
>> different lists of plugins for the 32 and 64 bits versions at the same
>> time.
>
> Firefox was just an example.

But a good one.

MfG
        Goswin



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