[Mageia-dev] Dutch tax program dependencies

Wed Mar 6 09:44:54 CET 2013

Le 06/03/2013 00:50, Reinout van Schouwen a écrit :
+> Hi all,
+>
+> The Dutch tax service makes life difficult for (64-bit) Mageia users
+> because the tax filing program expects the i586 versions of libxext6 and
+> libsm6 to be around.
+>
+> The tax service claim on their web site that Ubuntu 12.x and Linux Mint
+> 13 are supported. Could it be that they have these libraries
+> preinstalled on 64 bit platforms?
+>
+> Would it be possible to provide some kind of stub package that downloads
+> the program with the required dependencies, like Arch does? (
+> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/belastingdienst-ib2012/ )
+Most binary-only i586 programs expects additional 32 bits libraires 
+dependencies: skype, for instance. On a pure 64 bits systems, these 
+libraries won't be installed, and they won't even be available directly, 
+as long as 32 bits additional package sources are not configured...
+
+I'm effraid than endlessly adding 32bits dependencies on our 64 bits 
+packages, such as we did with pulseaudio for skype case, or adding 
+'stub' packages here, won't scale indefinitly to match every piece of 
+softwares we can't distribute ourselves. First, they are exceptions to 
+our 'self-containment' package sources policy... Second, dependencies 
+won't adress the package source configuration issue.
+
+So, what about adressing end users intelligence, and document all those 
+issues on a central 'compatibility' page on our wiki, instead of relying 
+on such kind of hacks ?
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #155:
+
+Dumb terminal
+