Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com> writes: > Well, it's more like one hundred packages, but nevertheless, a very > large number. Obviously its a trade off, just like everything else in > this world. Either take the easy road and continue to provide this > messy monolithic package that doesn't get any security updates, or take > the hard road to get something more supportable but forces additional > work on 100 maintainers. I personally think the latter is more > appropriate/ideal even though its more work. Obviously opinions will > vary.
The long-term solution is multiarch and allowing people to install 32-bit packages directly on 64-bit systems, which is why people haven't been willing to much effort into making the current system work better. We keep expecting multiarch to be in the next Debian release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bp5ytokz....@windlord.stanford.edu
