9 Jul
2008
9 Jul
'08
12:48 p.m.
Well, I'm not against having multilib packages about although I do think they need to be in their own repo. A wise person once said this about Arch: "It is what you make it". So if someone wants to make it multilib, then as long as I don't have to, all is good as far as I'm concerned. What I don't like is the need to build on a 32bit system. This doesn't help people who only have an x86_64 system and if you are going to install a 32bit chroot to build something then it is a bit of a waste of time... Why not provide a multilib enabled gcc et al at the same time? That would save patching makepkg to deal with the packaging. Allan