Why a multilib wrapper for non-multilib architectures?!

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 20:50:58 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Robert Scheck wrote:
> 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?
>

Because as a Fedora packager, neither am I responsible nor do I care
about ia64 packages. Replace ia64 by alpha (or any other secondary
arch) and rerun my answer.

Orcan




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