Multilib Middle-Ground

[Kevin Kofler]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I'd say that applies equally to open source software too, unless you 
> think of building special packages for every distribution and version 
> and arranging storage/mirrors/bandwidth for all of those variations as 
> being easy.

No. Free Software developers only have to release the source tarball, and let 
us Fedora packagers take care of maintaining the Fedora package (and likewise, 
Debian packagers take care of maintaining the Debian package, Gentoo packagers 
take care of maintaining the Gentoo ebuild etc.). Proprietary apps 
specificially forbid us from doing this in their license, that's why they have 
a problem.

        Kevin Kofler