Yes Pascal, that would be great. Keeping in mind, of course, that a mechanism (via updates?) to provide the equivalent packages for next year's tax program would have to be in place, otherwise it would hardly make sense.
Reinout 2013/3/6 Pascal Terjan <pter...@gmail.com>: > > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovi...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Le 06/03/2013 00:50, Reinout van Schouwen a écrit : >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The Dutch tax service makes life difficult for (64-bit) Mageia users >>> because the tax filing program expects the i586 versions of libxext6 and >>> libsm6 to be around. >>> >>> The tax service claim on their web site that Ubuntu 12.x and Linux Mint >>> 13 are supported. Could it be that they have these libraries >>> preinstalled on 64 bit platforms? >>> >>> Would it be possible to provide some kind of stub package that downloads >>> the program with the required dependencies, like Arch does? ( >>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/belastingdienst-ib2012/ ) >> >> Most binary-only i586 programs expects additional 32 bits libraires >> dependencies: skype, for instance. On a pure 64 bits systems, these >> libraries won't be installed, and they won't even be available directly, as >> long as 32 bits additional package sources are not configured... > > > I think we configure the 32 bits media by default > Having a 32 bits package installing this app and having the proper > dependencies would make sense > >> >> I'm effraid than endlessly adding 32bits dependencies on our 64 bits >> packages, such as we did with pulseaudio for skype case, or adding 'stub' >> packages here, won't scale indefinitly to match every piece of softwares we >> can't distribute ourselves. First, they are exceptions to our >> 'self-containment' package sources policy... Second, dependencies won't >> adress the package source configuration issue. >> >> So, what about adressing end users intelligence, and document all those >> issues on a central 'compatibility' page on our wiki, instead of relying on >> such kind of hacks ? >> >> -- >> BOFH excuse #155: >> >> Dumb terminal > > -- Reinout van Schouwen http://vanschouwen.info/