[Mageia-dev] Providing 32-bit flash-player-plugin in x86_64 nonfree?

Kira elegant.pegasus at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 17:39:02 CEST 2011


在 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:34:14 +0800, Anssi Hannula  
<anssi.hannula at iki.fi>寫道:

> On 05.06.2011 02:31, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Currently our flash-player-plugin pkg is only built on 32-bit, as the
>> 64-bit adobe build is still horribly out of date.
>>
>> However, this is problematic for 64-bit users, as installing the 32-bit
>> flash-player-plugin is cumbersome as nonfree32 media is not added on
>> 64-bit (and adding it would not be very nice, as the media list is
>> already way too cluttered).
>>
>> One option would be to build a x86_64 package that actually contains the
>> 32-bit flash player (and note that in description), with a dependency on
>> nspluginwrapper. When a proper 64-bit build is released by adobe, it
>> would be replaced with the 64-bit player.
>>
>> Do you think this should be done, or would it add too much confusion?
>
> Since there wasn't any big opposition to this, I'll be submitting it
> shortly. Feel free to complain now :)
>
Isn't there a new 64-bit version os flash player?

Do you mean to have 2 packages in which contains 2 kinds of flash-player,

or just the one with 32 bit exists?


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