[Mageia-dev] Providing 32-bit flash-player-plugin in x86_64 nonfree?

Thu Aug 18 19:24:40 CEST 2011

On 18.08.2011 18:39, Kira wrote:
+> 在 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:34:14 +0800, Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula at iki.fi>
+> 寫道:
+> 
+>> On 05.06.2011 02:31, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+>>> Hi!
+>>>
+>>> Currently our flash-player-plugin pkg is only built on 32-bit, as the
+>>> 64-bit adobe build is still horribly out of date.
+>>>
+>>> However, this is problematic for 64-bit users, as installing the 32-bit
+>>> flash-player-plugin is cumbersome as nonfree32 media is not added on
+>>> 64-bit (and adding it would not be very nice, as the media list is
+>>> already way too cluttered).
+>>>
+>>> One option would be to build a x86_64 package that actually contains the
+>>> 32-bit flash player (and note that in description), with a dependency on
+>>> nspluginwrapper. When a proper 64-bit build is released by adobe, it
+>>> would be replaced with the 64-bit player.
+>>>
+>>> Do you think this should be done, or would it add too much confusion?
+>>
+>> Since there wasn't any big opposition to this, I'll be submitting it
+>> shortly. Feel free to complain now :)
+>>
+> Isn't there a new 64-bit version os flash player?
+
+Not a stable one.
+
+> Do you mean to have 2 packages in which contains 2 kinds of flash-player,
+> 
+> or just the one with 32 bit exists?
+
+The x86_64 flash-player-plugin package contains stable 32-bit Flash Player.
+
+The x86_64 flash-player-plugin11 package contains the 64-bit Flash
+Player 64-bit Beta.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+