[Hamara-devel] is there a case for multiarch in hamara ?

[shirish]

Hi all,
I was researching something and suddenly realized that there has never 
been a discussion or even talk about multiarch. While we have just 3 
targets for now (32-bit, 64-bit and ARM) don't remember whether it's 
just armel or armhf (probably armel) but if the number of architectures 
goes up, the need for multiarch goes up as well.

See https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/TheCaseForMultiarch for arguments 
in favour of multiarch. While they have listed only a couple of 
examples, they have been able to convince and got multiarch support 
added by huge number of upstreams. If we go the same way then there 
would be that less of a diff. between us and debian.

There is a cost to this route though, proper multiarch support does add 
anywhere between 5-10% to added code as correct paths need to be figured 
in every instance. Debian does also spend quite a bit of significant 
time in trouble-shooting multiarch issues but then it has enough people 
who have a buy-in and do support the idea of multiarch and do try to 
make sure that each new package going in is multi-archable.

It is possible that it may seem superfluous/overkill at this point of 
time but needed to share that as a matter of record in case we feel the 
need to revisit this issue sometime in future.

Look forward to any feedback on the above.
-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org