On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Dennis Gilmore <den...@ausil.us> wrote:
> On jueves, 5 de enero de 2017 1:35:28 PM CST Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Dennis Gilmore <den...@ausil.us> wrote:
>> > On jueves, 5 de enero de 2017 11:03:50 AM CST Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> >> # Overview
>> >>
>> >> For many years, Fedora has supported multilib by carrying
>> >> parallel-installable libraries in /usr/lib[64]. This was necessary for a
>> >> very long time in order to support 32-bit applications running on a
>> >> 64-bit
>> >> deployment. However, in today's new container world, there is a whole new
>> >> option.
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to propose that we consider moving away from our traditional
>> >> approach to multilib in favor of recommending the use of a 32-bit
>> >> container
>> >> runtime when needed on a 64-bit host.
>> >
>> > I am not opposed, however I think we should possibly just have people
>> > enable the 32 bit x86 repo instead of your proposal
>>
>> Multilib exists on non-x86 architectures.  Should this proposal gain
>> traction, we need to consider the implications to those architectures.
> its been killed off on all other arches.

I stand corrected.  For some reason I thought it still existed on
ppc64, but that is clearly not the case.

josh
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