[Development] Pending decisions on co-installation

[Lincoln Ramsay]

On 01/11/12 09:41, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On quinta-feira, 1 de novembro de 2012 09.23.37, Lincoln Ramsay wrote:
>> On 01/11/12 01:02, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> Also, do I understand correctly that you're suggesting that multiarch
>>>
>>> distributions should have *both*:
>>> 	/usr/lib/qt5//bin/assistant		AND		/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/assistant
>>> 	/usr/lib/qt5//bin/linguist		AND		/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/linguist
>>> 	/usr/lib/qt5//bin/designer		AND		/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/designer
>> hang on... why shouldn't they have both of those?
>>
>> a 32-bit assistant is different to a 64-bit assistant
> How are they different?

Well for one thing, you can't run the 32-bit one against a 64-bit 
install or vice versa. Any plugins they load (including system style 
plugins) must be the same bit-ness. Designer used to load plugins for 
custom widgets... not sure if it still does.

If you're on a 64-bit distro, you most likely don't want the 32-bit 
versions. If you're on a 32-bit distro, you can't use the 64-bit ones. 
That's a distro/packaging problem though. The best we could do is to 
remove these from the Qt repo and build/packge them separately (like we 
do with Creator).

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