Re: [rox-devel] 0launch trouble: ROX-Filer and OroboROX

[Ken H. <ke...@ha...>]

Tony Houghton wrote:
> In <43F...@ha...>, Ken Hayber wrote:
> 
>> Tony Houghton wrote:
>>> In <883...@ma...>, Michel Salim wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looking forward to it. Thanks for the response .. correct me wrong,
>>>> but it looks like the easy solution would be to assume that x86_64
>>>> users have 32-bit compatibility libraries installed (either chroot-ed
>>>> for Debian/Ubuntu users or multilib) and assume it's a valid
>>>> architecture?
>>> I disagree. I don't think Debian/Ubuntu has adequate support in what
>>> passes for its multilib, and I think without ROX-Filer and/or
>>> ROX-Session being partially rewritten to support a chroot explicitly,
>>> that would constrain the entire desktop to running in the chroot.
>> I pretty much agree.
> 
> With me or Michael?

:) You.  Sorry.

>> I think a hierarchy (fallback from 64 to 32 bit) would be a better 
>> choice.  Or a manual orverride of some kind.
> 
> Yes, if the user can control whether ix86 is acceptable for x86_64 or
> ppc is acceptable for ppc64, that should work.