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hauzer

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From: Belgrade, Serbia

Registered: 2010-11-17

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i686 only software, x86_64 and PKGBUILD patches

Is the packager supposed to hack 32bit software's PKGBUILD to support x86_64 as explained here or is that left up to the end user? For example, look at this package (it's PKGBUILD); it uses if/else to determine if the platform is 64bit and downloads gcc-multilib and lib32-glibc if needed. Is that good practice or not?

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: i686 only software, x86_64 and PKGBUILD patches

I don't know if it's good practice, but it looks like most PKGBUILDS dealing with lib32 packages.