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Rethinking Fedora multilib support

Rethinking Fedora multilib support

Posted Jan 16, 2017 13:52 UTC (Mon) by lsl (subscriber, #86508)
In reply to: Rethinking Fedora multilib support by pabs
Parent article: Rethinking Fedora multilib support

> Multi-arch $PATH doesn't have any significant use-cases yet that I know of.

A network file system that is mounted by machines of different arch. Plan 9 did it that way many years ago. You had /mips/bin, /386/bin, …, as well as a directory for arch-less executables (shell scripts).

On startup, the setup scripts would bind the appropriate directories for the local machine so that their contents would be available at /bin. It used bind/union mounts instead of $PATH but you could do the same thing with $PATH on Unix.


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Rethinking Fedora multilib support

Posted Jan 22, 2017 2:36 UTC (Sun) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Ack, but what was the motivation for Plan 9 doing it like that? What can you achieve with multi-arch /usr/bin or $PATH that you can't do without it?


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