[aur-general] bin32-wine and related [WAS: trusted users business]

[Allan McRae]

On 16/07/10 09:52, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
> On 07/16/2010 02:38 AM, 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:
>>>> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 00:12 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase 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
>>>> 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?
>>
>>
>
> lib32 packages are just a hack to run i686 packages on x86_64. to call
> arch a multilib we need first to have a multilib toolchain.
>

Which is unlikely to ever happen...

I think all this lib32 stuff is crap.  Chroots are the way to go and are 
so much cleaner.

Allan