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

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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