Re: Why I hate Gtk+/GNOME (from the perspective of an Ada supporter)

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Ludovic Brenta schrieb:

> I think the reason SuSE has problems is because it mixes 32-
> and 64-bit packages together whereas Debian keeps them separate.
> Multilib (the act of installing libraries for multiple architectures
> on a single machine) is tricky and not yet standardised properly.

Indeed - as I said: the worse thing to happen is a 64 -> 32 bit 
downgrade because some of the micro teams forgot to create a 64 library 
- which had previously be available. This leads to nasty situation where 
Library X is available as 1.5(32) and 1.4(64) and Application Y needs 
libX-1.5.so.

Of course SuSE supplies 32bit for all the tools without true 64 bit 
support. And I am not speaking of closed source tools like i.E. acrobat 
reader here - open source project like Open-Object-Rexx have trouble as 
well to provide 64 bit versions.

Martin
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