On Tue 2008-07-08 23:38, RedShift wrote:
Thomas Bächler wrote: [...]
Now, again, you gave me a list of ideological reasons not to do it, but where exactly is the point where this damages your "pure" system technically?
It's about the technical purity. It's this that makes us different from the other distro's. Otherwise we're just on the road to the next ubuntu. And if you really want 32 bit stuff running on x86-64, just use a 32 bit chroot and don't bother with the multilib stuff.
Well, I see a lot of lib32-* packages in the [community] repo, this means people do want this stuff; at the same time, lib32 packages kind of suck (just read a PKGBUILD to find out why). Arch always provided closed-source software too, so there is no such "purity" to maintain. Thomas proposed to create an ad-hoc repo, so the *-32bit won't even pollute the official repos, I don't see how cleaner this could be; If you don't enable it, then it won't affect your system at all. P.s. There should be a Godwin's-like Law for the phrase "we are on the road to Ubuntu"... -- Alessio (molok) Bolognino Please send personal email to themolok@gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB