Multilib lunar

[Peter de Ridder]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Dennis
Veatch<dennisveatch at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 September 2009 6:13:16 am Peter de Ridder wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Auke Kok<sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
>> > Peter de Ridder wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>>
>> My motives are that some programs I want to use don't come in a 32-bit
>> version and more important I like to do it as a hobby project. So for
>> me it wouldn't be waste time, but spend time.
>> I know there are other solutions like chroot.
>>
>
> Aside from those noted in this thread, would you mind listing the applications
> that makes this an important feature of lunar?

It is about the modules you noted later on. grub, wine and maybe some
other emulators. (I don't know all the modules, for me it is mostly
grub and wine). It is not my goal to make all modules in 64-bit and
32-bit. Just to support those that really need 32-bit.
What is know of that needs 32-bit.
grub: not many or no dependencies.
wine: this would mean alot of X libraries need to have 32-bit.
virtualbox: the website claims to work on 64-bit too.
Phun: this is a binary package which also has a 64-bit version, it is
not my intention to support the 32-bit version of this. (Added as an
example).

I hope this clarifies my intentions.

> "Useless" is perhaps the wrong description. Its more like the few perceived
> modules that are 32 bit only versus the number of modules we have. Besides
> grub, wine and virtualbox, I cannot think of anything in moonbase that has
> this limitation, there may be a few others but none come to mind. So I think
> it goes back the the 32 bit apps you want to use but haven't specified what
> those are.

Regards,
Peter