On 16.07.2010 01:38, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 02:25 +0300, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
On 07/16/2010 02:15 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
I would be very delighted to see bin32-wine moving into community. If you can package all the lib32 packages it depends on you will a) be able to do that b) have some packages that make good community candidates anyway (lib32 stuff). Also, why can't you do it while on vacation? Surely you have your SSH tunnel, right? :)
-- Lord Sven-Hendrik "Svenstaro" Haase I second the bin32-wine thing =). For it to be useful though I think
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 00:12 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: lib32-all-graphic-drivers need to be available?
no. only lib32-libgl and lib32-nvidia-utils, which already are in community.
lets stick in the future in $subject and start another thread if you feel you need to add something about packaging :D
Your wish is my command.
Okay now that I have your answer I understand my assumptions were mistaken, only the libgl/nvidia-utils packages are 'app-facing' in that sense.
A nagging question that I've been having in the back of my mind, how similar is Arch's lib32 stuff with the multi-lib stuff other distros (random example Ubuntu since that's my previous experience) do. When I first started using Arch I set a chroot up for my wine/skype/google-earth on the understanding that lib32 would always be 'unofficial', but recently I've seen more lib32 packages making it to [community].
Would lib32 make Arch multi-lib, then?
Arch doesn't have official multilib support yet which is why compiling cross platform is such a pain in the ass. We have a few littered lib32 packages to ease most of the pain but we don't even have an official cross32-gcc. In Arch you can currently not have a true full multi lib system easily. Do we even want to change that? I don't know. multilib seems dirty to many people. Personally, I consider lib32 stuff to be transitional on the way to true 64bit and probably not too much effort should be wasted for 32bit stuff. chroots do the job mostly fine. I therefore encourage Ranguvar to package the remaining lib32 packages for community and move bin32-wine in as well. Jan had a working wine-wow64 earlier but it is a freak show. -- Sven-Hendrik