[Mageia-dev] Dutch tax program dependencies

Sun Mar 10 14:34:00 CET 2013

Yes Pascal, that would be great. Keeping in mind, of course, that a
+mechanism (via updates?) to provide the equivalent packages for next
+year's tax program would have to be in place, otherwise it would
+hardly make sense.
+
+Reinout
+
+2013/3/6 Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com>:
+>
+>
+> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com>
+> wrote:
+>>
+>> 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 think we configure the 32 bits media by default
+> Having a 32 bits package installing this app and having the proper
+> dependencies would make sense
+>
+>>
+>> 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
+>
+>
+
+
+
+--
+Reinout van Schouwen
+http://vanschouwen.info/
+