2009/11/7 Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Furthermore, we plan to work on a package manager which would make
this
feature pretty much superfluous, anyway (well, of course it would be
kinda neat to be able to boot one Haiku installation on different
architectures, but beyond that, it's quite a waste for such little
use).
I think one of its points of it are to be able to have one
installation-cd, usb-key instead of having one for x86 and one for
x64, and also being able to generate such without downloading a new
distribution. He also claims the overhead isn't linear regarding
architecture as sections get reused.
It has some good points, and I don't think it would be bad to support
it (if someone wanted to do it), but creating and using those fat
binaries, from distributor/builder pov, would probably be the big
problem and too much work.
