Re: Multilib Middle-Ground

["Bill Crawford" <billcrawford1970 gmail com>]

On 01/05/2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com> wrote:

>  Would you mind leaving the 'p' word out of this discussion?  The same
> principle applies to all software that isn't recompiled and repackaged
> between every version, including the user's own and other programs where
> source is available but you don't want to have to rebuild (if we did want to
> recompile every week we'd be running gentoo...).  Pretending this is
> specific to proprietary software puts the wrong spin on the conversation
> here.  The only difference being proprietary  makes in this case is that
> someone else needs to do this work and probably maintain specific versions
> separately for each fedora version instead of every using doing that
> himself.

Except that ... where RPM packages are concerned, this usually happens
with proprietary software. I've never built my own RPM packages that
way, nor do most sane people.