On 05/04/2010 09:01 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: > On 05/04/2010 07:53 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Could somebody provide some insight why Fedora ships a >> perl-*i686.rpm package for x86_64? >> >> I don't understand this. My feel is this doesn't make sense and actually >> is a distro composition bug.
> Some languages are distributed for x86_64 with both variant > e.g. tcl, because some libraries doesn't work with x86_64 > interpreter. Well, this makes sense in case of libraries/modules, but how is this be supposed to work in case of perl? I am well aware perl has multiarch/multilib issues, so theoretically, supplying i?86 perl and perl-module could have some use cases, however it's escaping me how this may work with the current packaging: - The applications (/usr/bin/*) of the x86_64 and i686 packages are identical, so one will override the other. - The i686-perl modules all are missing. > We didn't ship perl-5.8.8 for both archs and I don't > know about any reason why it changed. That's what I thought, also. I was surprized to discover otherwise in FC11, FC12, FC13 and rawhide ;) Ralf -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
