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

Sun Jun 5 01:42:33 CEST 2011

On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:31:03 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote about [Mageia-dev]
+Providing 32-bit flash-player-plugin in x86_64 nonfree?:
+
+>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64-bit adobe build is still horribly out of date.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?
+
+I'd love to see that. But the nspluginwrapper also brings in a large number
+of 32 bit packages!
+
+If you can manage it, I shall quite appreciate it.
+
+Cheers,
+=Dick Gevers=
+