Why a multilib wrapper for non-multilib architectures?!

Robert Scheck robert at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jun 13 20:42:25 UTC 2009


On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Probably because it's less maintenance work in the specfile to just always
> add the wrapper. (On the other hand, it means extra work (adding an #ifdef)
> when adding a secondary arch.)

Well, how would it help to have a wrapper for ia64 if no non-ia64 packages
are getting installed on ia64? Replace ia64 by alpha and rerun my question.
Why a wrapper file, if there's nothing, that could conflict?


Greetings,
  Robert




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