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[John McAleely <john.mcaleely@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14 September 2015 at 13:32, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Montag, den 14.09.2015, 12:12 +0100 schrieb John McAleely:
> > I like the sound of multiarch for two reasons:
>
> well, if you want the rootfs to be able to actually do multiarch (not
> sure if you are using the term in context of the typical use of
> debian/ubuntu here), be prepared for a massive image size penalty since
> we will have to seed all the 32bit libs along the 64bit ones in that
> case ...
>

I do, but I'm still new enough around here that it's wise to check.

The size penalty is one I hadn't formally considered, but I would want to
size it before committing to it. I personally think the cost comes under
the 'price of compatibility with existing store binaries', so if that goal
enabled the 32bit libs to be shrunk in size, then so be it.

As I see things, the current proposal (to keep Ubuntu 32bit) defers any
such decision, and we know that long term bets on the cost/capacity of
storage tend to pay off in the direction of using more :-)

J