On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:25:44PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:

I have to side with Thomas here on the fact that no technical arguments were brought up. That irks me just a bit - that "no because no" seems to be a valid reason. It's not.

That said, I am very very neutral on this. Thomas' plan does not integrate anything at all, it just puts some 32bit libs in a parallel repo for people to use if they want to (read: users can choose). A pristine system is all well and good, but as we can all tell from the existence of the lib32- packages in community, it's not what everyone wants. What Thomas is proposing is keeping the pristine system pristine unless someone wants to install the 32bit stuff. I don't have a problem with this rationale.

*But* I think it is a bit important that we look at why we're doing this - for a handful (5 or 6) closed source apps. flash, teamspeak, skype, google-earth (and wine). It seems like a lot of work for a handful of apps. That's why I'm neutral on this. I think the rationale is sound, but it sounds like a lot of forward MOTION for little forward PROGRESS.

Well there's nothing stopping people from creating their own 32bit library repos for x86_64. So just get together and do it eh? That's why there are things like kdemod and a new arch-games repo.