Multilib Middle-Ground

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 1 17:41:03 UTC 2008


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 09:58 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I don't understand why anyone would have any interest in an operating 
>> system that can only run its own programs.  Aside from the obvious 
>> limitations since no one could seriously expect it to include all 
>> possibilities, it has to be an enormous waste of effort to build the 
>> specialized versions and package them in repositories that few people 
>> will use anyway.
> 
> You clearly Don't Get It and no amount of explaining it to you is going
> to help. Please, just stop talking.

No, I don't expect any amount of explaining to make me want something 
that is clearly not useful to me.  This isn't the first time you've had 
a choice about supporting multi-arch libs though.  Why the hostility 
when changing your own direction?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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