[lsb-discuss] PROPOSAL: change "lsb" dependency to "lsb-ia32"

[Mark Hatle]

George Kraft wrote:
> There is a proposal to change the required "lsb" dependency to "lsb-<arch>", 
> because a system could support both 32bit & 64bit.  For example, and application
> would need to be dependent on "lsb-ppc32" or "lsb-ppc64".
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=1107&atid=101107&func=detail&aid=788396
> 
> Other ideas included changing the installation tool (ie., rpm); however, the
> LSB has not had much success at doing that.  :-)
> 
> We would like to hear your opinions and/or alternate solutions.
> 

I believe requiring lsb-<arch> is a good solution, especially when you 
consider multi-abi systems, not just 32 and 64 bit systems.

--Mark