On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 08:38:03PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > If you *can* test the new build method, noting what breaks might > be helpful. Personally, I have no 32-bit binaries to care about, nor > any nvidia/ati kernel modules, so I dislike /lib64 (it's unnecessary > for me, and perhaps causes the 'appears to be moved' messages that > libtool spits out on anything using .la files). > > And I abhor multilib (been there on x86_64 and ppc64 - it was an > interesting learning experience, particularly when trying to *not* > install two sizes of everything, but I never had the time to keep my > multilib desktops current [ I always built first on 32-bit or pure64 > to get an idea of the dependencies I needed/wanted, but then for > multilib I had to go through and work out the sizes - in the end, > nothing "needed" to be 32-bit on x86_64, and very little on ppc64 > benefitted from being 64-bit (except the kernel, of course). > Apologies to JH for allowing myself to be drawn OT now that he's pulled that branch.
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