SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 27, 2010 16:11 UTC (Sun) by Tet (guest, #5433)
In reply to: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure by vonbrand
Parent article: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

<paxman>
Answer the question!
</paxman>

Your "solution" doesn't solve the problem where application plugins are concerned. Firstly, the majority them are not installed using the system package manager in the first place, and secondly, it's utterly irrelevant anyway. You can't package the achitecture specific bits separately, because the application only looks for them in one place. As I said right at the start, it would be good to fix the applications, but there are a hell of a lot of them. Fat binaries would solve the problem. Your suggestions wouldn't, without first also patching the apps.