On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:21:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > Shouldn't /usr/bin/qemu be an alias for qemu-system-$(ARCH), where $(ARCH) is > the native architecture? Defaulting to i386 doesn't make much sense nowadays, > specially since x86_64 is gradually obsoleting it.
Management tools for QEMU will have come to rely on existing semantics of /usr/bin/qemu being i386. Changing this for merely cosmetic reasons would cause significant technical complications because tools would then have to try and detect whether /usr/bin/qemu were native or i386. Thus I see no real functional/technical benefit to changing it, and plenty of downside. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
