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 :-)
An interesting idea. Except that we allow x64 systems to be booted in
either 32- or 64- bit mode on the same root filesystem.
-- Garrett
>
> -John
>
