<div dir="ltr">Hello,<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 May 2013 23:18, Richard W.M. Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com" target="_blank">rjones@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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(10) Get rid of multilib, /usr/lib64 etc and copy what Debian/Ubuntu<br>
are doing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>might I ask the reasoning behind this? I found the current RHEL/Fedora approach much better.<br><br>For example; at work we use IBM Lotus Notes, which is a 32 bit package. To install it in a 32 bit or 64 bit environment the command is the same (i.e. yum localinstall) as it will pull in the correct 32 bit dependencies. Basically hassle free.<br>
<br>The guys that run Debian/Ubuntu notebooks, have to go through a series of dependency problems just to install the package in a 64 bit environment with getlibs and the like:<br><br><a href="http://usablesoftware.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/install-lotus-notes-8-5-3-on-ubuntu-12-10-64bit-quick-n-dirty-installation-notes/">http://usablesoftware.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/install-lotus-notes-8-5-3-on-ubuntu-12-10-64bit-quick-n-dirty-installation-notes/</a><br>
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</div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Regards,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">--Simone<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore (R. W. Emerson).<br>
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