[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: multi-arch dependencies (Issue #2197)

[Panu Matilainen]

The current dependency design comes from nineties and the multilib support (those dreaded `(64bit)()` postfix markers on dependencies) from the early millenium was always an ugly hack, necessiated by backwards compatibility. It's not so much a technically complicated change as it's a compatibility issue, there hasn't been a good time to make such a change. The oncoming rpm v6 format provides a nice point to reset the dependency namespace.

#1038 is a PR in this direction, but there are further details to consider wrt storage and otherwise.

-- 
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/2197
You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.

Message ID: <rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/2197 at github.com>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-maint/attachments/20220919/8772890a/attachment.html>