[Development] Pending decisions on co-installation

[Thiago Macieira]

On sexta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2012 15.11.40, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > But we're not installing to the common directory. We're installing to an
> > arch- specific path, which the existing infrastructure may not be
> > equipped to handle. So it's entirely possible we'll end up with
> > duplication of executables.>
> > 
> 
> no, we don't, because nobody would install both linugist:i386 and
> linguist:amd64. this follows directly from what i said before.

Assuming the distribution splits linguist from the arch-specific tooling like 
lupdate. Otherwise you'll have the duplication.

In any case, I've been investigating how to make multiarch work and there's 
surprisingly little information for tooling and building. My conclusion so far 
is that we don't have to worry about the 64-bit wrapper finding the 32-bit 
tools. The distributions will need to get their act together first before we 
can fix this.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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