[RFE, Patch, Multi-lib] 32bit support /usr/bin/firefox

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Mon Nov 13 01:06:38 UTC 2006


On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:44:42 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:

> Warren Togami wrote:
> > Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >>> I'm pretty annoyed by this as well.  So I am soon submitting an 
> >>> alternative short-term solution to Extras.
> >>>
> >>> The real solution is to make browser plugins run out-of-process.  
> >>> This would have tremendous benefits to us in the long-term.  I am 
> >>> skeptical however that it will happen in a timely manner.
> >>>
> >>
> >> You thinking about submitting nspluginwrapper?
> >>
> >> - Gilboa
> >>
> > 
> > No.  It is broken and requires lots of work.  You will see my submission 
> > soon.
> > 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215256
> Yes, this really sucks.

Ugly indeed. Are you serious about building this as x86_64, ppc64 and
s390x, but with a non-32-bit-specific dependency on "firefox"? You end up
with an x86_64 package to be used for an i386 firefox, a ppc64 package for
a ppc firefox, and so on. It's also possible to uninstall 32-bit firefox
and keep this package including the trigger and the menu entry.

With regard to the bottom half of the %description, there is one big
question: *Why* isn't it done?




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