On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Radke schrieb: >> I give you a strict -1 for any 32bit compat stuff in our officially >> supported repos as I already told you in private discussions. I've >> spent several weeks if not even months to make it as clean as possible. > > What you are saying is that by adding an extra capability (again, separate > repository, nothing to pollute core or extra in any way), we destroy the > clean-ness of your so clean (and yeah, it is clean) system. That's just > irrational. > > The fact that you don't quote a single line from my posting tells me that > you haven't even read any of my propositions. Why don't you give technical > arguments instead of making this personal? > > The reason I want to maintain this on our ftp is that I want it to be easily > accessible to our devs and users, as I can't maintain it alone. The reason I > don't want this (at least the core of it) in community is that I want it to > be separate from the rest. > > Besides, unless you want to maintain the packages or use them by activating > the repository in pacman.conf, you won't even notice it's there.
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.
