Stephen Waters wrote:
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 23:07, Allen Unueco wrote:debian-multiarch, for all architecture generic work debian-amd64, implementation of multiarch for amd64 debian-pure64, 64bit only mono-arch Multiarch is the fine goal and I see pure64 as one step along that path.Well said. In the meantime, I'm more than happy to use a chroot() for the 2 or 3 32-bit apps I need (mplayer & realplayer come to mind) until multi-arch comes to fruition.
Ditto.I don't believe anyone is saying multiarch should die, it shouldn't. Unfortunately, it appears to be bogged down right now waiting for the rest of Debian to incorporate changes to dpkg/apt and Debian infrastructure to support it. I still haven't gotten a firm idea from these threads about multiarch's time frame, but if we really are talking about a year or more, then having pure64 now just makes a lot of sense, especially if it involves work that would have to be done later for amd64-multiarch anyway.
Cheers thanks to everyone for all the hard work!
Yes, and I want to especially thank John for his pure64 work. I was just days away from trying out Gentoo (ordered it from CheapBytes, it arrived yesterday), looking for a 64 bit system that I could use now, even though I really didn't want to leave Debian, or even so much as flirt with another distro. Now, I don't have to. Thank you.
Ed