Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]

[Josselin Mouette <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>]

Le mar 13/01/2004 à 09:47, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit :
> Bad choise of words. SuSe and RH actively support only 1 and 2 but
> allow for 3. You can easily install i386 software yourself on amd64
> but the packaging system and developement files don't help you with
> that.

If all packages are available in their 64bit version, where's the point?

> And its a completly different world for sparc64, mips64, s390x,
> ppc64. Arguing about amd64 not needing 32bit doesn't help at
> all. There are still 4 archs left that do need it. Multiarch support
> is comming one way or the other, live with it. The question is how not
> if.

It seems to me the needs for amd64 are completely different from the
other 64 bit architectures. While the biarch system looks appropriate
for a system where only a few applications will benefit from being built
with a 64 bit compiler (such as sparc64), it seems amd64 would be much
better with *all* packages rebuilt. Why basing a port on the 32 bit
version when you want 99 % of the system to be 64 bit?
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