On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:53:07AM -0700, John Plocher wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >I also remain unfond of the approach of turning a bunch of key programs > >in /usr/bin into isaexec() links. While the isaexec() approach was not > >unreasonable for a few utilities that aren't run frequently like > >prtconf, I don't think the solution scales well. > > Maybe there is an opportunity to leverage IPS here - have it install the > correct binaries from the repo (32, 64, x64, SPARC, Power, ARM...) based > on the isaexec-abilities of the target platform. > > (i.e., don't do isaexec() at runtime, do it at install time :-)
Well, that would mean having x86/64 installs that can only boot in one of 32-bit or 64-bit modes, but not both. I personally don't mind.
