On 01/05/2017 01:36 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On 5 January 2017 at 13:31, Daniel J Walsh <dwa...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> You just described a fundamental change to how people would need to
>>> build 32-bit applications locally. They don't have to install a
>>> VM/chroot to do that today, they would in a containerized multilib
>>> solution. I don't think it's fair to claim "Building of software
>>> shouldn't be changed at all in most cases" with this proposal.
>>>
>>> Remember, not all software is built in mock or even as RPMs. End user
>>> software developers will be impacted by the removal of existing
>>> multilib.
>>>
>>> josh
>> Sadly will we be hearing these same arguments 10 years from now...
> Yes. We will. And in 10 years from now the inevitable backlash against
> containers because they aren't new and nifty and had all these warts
> that come from real life will be in full swing. [This doesn't mean
> that containers will go away any more than they were completely new in
> the first place but ideas that Multics (and other OS's had) in the
> 1960/70's.] This is how software goes.
>
Well we will be retired at that point, and playing shuffle board.
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