On 16.07.2010 01:38, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 02:25 +0300, Ionuț Bîru wrote: >> On 07/16/2010 02:15 AM, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >>> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 00:12 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >>>> I would be very delighted to see bin32-wine moving into community. If >>>> you can package all the lib32 packages it depends on you will a) be able >>>> to do that b) have some packages that make good community candidates >>>> anyway (lib32 stuff). Also, why can't you do it while on vacation? >>>> Surely you have your SSH tunnel, right? :) >>>> >>>> -- Lord Sven-Hendrik "Svenstaro" Haase >>> I second the bin32-wine thing =). For it to be useful though I think >>> lib32-all-graphic-drivers need to be available? >>> >> no. only lib32-libgl and lib32-nvidia-utils, which already are in >> community. >> >> lets stick in the future in $subject and start another thread if you >> feel you need to add something about packaging :D >> > Your wish is my command. > > Okay now that I have your answer I understand my assumptions were > mistaken, only the libgl/nvidia-utils packages are 'app-facing' in that > sense. > > A nagging question that I've been having in the back of my mind, how > similar is Arch's lib32 stuff with the multi-lib stuff other distros > (random example Ubuntu since that's my previous experience) do. When I > first started using Arch I set a chroot up for my > wine/skype/google-earth on the understanding that lib32 would always be > 'unofficial', but recently I've seen more lib32 packages making it to > [community]. > > Would lib32 make Arch multi-lib, then? > > > Arch doesn't have official multilib support yet which is why compiling cross platform is such a pain in the ass. We have a few littered lib32 packages to ease most of the pain but we don't even have an official cross32-gcc. In Arch you can currently not have a true full multi lib system easily.
Do we even want to change that? I don't know. multilib seems dirty to many people. Personally, I consider lib32 stuff to be transitional on the way to true 64bit and probably not too much effort should be wasted for 32bit stuff. chroots do the job mostly fine. I therefore encourage Ranguvar to package the remaining lib32 packages for community and move bin32-wine in as well. Jan had a working wine-wow64 earlier but it is a freak show. -- Sven-Hendrik
