On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:59 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thursday 08 March 2007 11:42:21 David Zeuthen wrote:
> Just to serve these two rather weird use cases [1] you're fine with not
> making this fit on a 700MB. I don't think this is a good idea. Thanks.
I don't have a good answer. Either we cut out this capability of the x86_64
platform, and create a case where the installed from LiveCD differs pretty
dramatically from the installed from real media, or we try to find a way to
make it fit, or pass on multi-arch LiveCDs in general. Solving this for
ppc64 is not going to be any easier, you can't just say 'you only get ppc64
packages' as that is really stupid for that platform.
So I don't really think that the lack of secondary-arch rpms on the live
cd (no 32-bit packages for x86_64, (almost no) 64-bit packages on ppc64)
is going to create this horror picture where things are dramatically
different as long as our repos still contain the secondary-arch packages
and our tools, e.g. yum and pirut and whatever, is capable of pulling in
the deps. Besides, the live CD already differs from the installed set;
there's no OO.o to start with for instance.
David