В сообщении от Friday 11 May 2007 16:12:36 Martin Schlander написал(а):

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- I fear the way it looks now people with support for 64bit will feel they must get the 64bit version. Which is likely to cause them a few problems they would not face if they installed the 32bit version.

Like what? Honestly if there are problems running 64bit stuff on a 64bit system then these problems should be reported and we should try to fix them.

Little things that are not really fixable by a distributor.

If it causes problems for you it's worth to report bugs, for others x86_64 system works fine. BTW: other disributions indeed have more biarch issues.

- There are more x86-packages.

Subjective point, wrt. main repositories, Build Service and main external repos have packages for both architectures.

- w32codecs don't work with 64bit players (I believe). Of course you can play almost everything with free codecs these days, but still..

Wrong, it works for me.

- Java apps such as limewire or azureus tend to cause problems

Again, report bugs...

- tarballs compile more often without problems on 32bit I think,

A user should not compile, this is packager's work.

- biarch can cause some problems, people must remember to keep 32bit firefox to have working java webplugin.

I don't use ff, but in konqueror java apps do work.

Stuff like that..

Summary: we should decrease number of 32bit packages on biarch systems as far as possible. -- Regards, Nikolay Derkach --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org