[arch-dev-public] [ANNOUNCEMENT DRAFT] True multilib for Arch Linux x86_64

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On 08/27/2010 08:58 AM, Andreas Radke wrote:
> Am Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:09:24 +0200
> schrieb Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org>:
>
>> <draft>
>> I am happy to announce the availability of the new multilib
>> repository. At this time, it contains wine, skype and flashplugin.
>> Furthermore, a multilib compiler is available.
>>
>> With the launch of the multilib repository all old 'lib32' packages
>> are being removed from community - the core/extra/community
>> repositories will be "pure 64 bit" again.
>>
>> If you want to use the new multilib packages (and most desktop or
>> laptop users probably do), add the following lines to your
>> pacman.conf:
>>
>> [multilib]
>> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
>> </draft>
>>
>> Can someone help me with the formatting, as I have no idea which
>> format tags archweb allows for our news.
>>
>
> https://support.skype.com/faq/FA200/Can-I-redistribute-Skype-for-Linux;jsessionid=5F83DEC8C281C6EBD160EF057D9C4562
>
> I don't think that we are allowed to offer a binary skype package. No
> idea about the other offered packages.
>

we have their permission to redistribute.

  http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/community/skype/trunk/PERMISSION

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