Multilib Middle-Ground
Thomas M Steenholdt
tmus at tmus.dk
Wed Apr 30 23:35:28 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>
>> wrote:
>>> The right way to approach this I think is to target specific third
>>> party applications which we want to work out of the box. Say for
>>> example, Flash and VMWare Workstation. Surely there are others, but I
>>> think we can arrive at a reasonably sane set. We then add these
>>> packages to the default install image.
>>
>> Would you include the following in your "sane" set?
>>
>> IDL
>> MatLab
>> LabView
>> Mathematica
>> SAS/IML and SAS/STAT
>> nag.com library products
>> any number of proprietary fortran and C compilers
>
> Throw in Sun's 32 bit jvm's too.
>
> Would it be possible to grow rpm meta-packages of 32-bit lib
> dependencies for common applications as they become known with some
> consistent name convention so something like
> yum install vmware_32bit_libs
> would fix things instead of having to know each needed file and which
> package provides it?
>
I don't see how this would be easier to maintain that the whitelist
solution. I think it would actually be a lot harder in the long run.
/Thomas
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