Re: Multi-architecture package support

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 03:31:13PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> For anyone interested, I have an initial implementation of
> multi-architecture packages.  This is something we need at Joyent to
> avoid having to provide package sets for both 32bit and 64bit, and I
> figured it might be useful for other Solaris users too.

The one thing I never understood here is why this is a desirable
property. It involves a lot of pain for very little gain and the only
justification I have seen so far is poorly written (binary only)
software.

Joerg