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Re: Breaking /emul/ia32-linux for squeeze



On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:45:32PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Mar 16, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> 
> > > I think it would be very helpful if somebody could summarize why a
> > > multiarch system is useful, except for the obvious case of installing
> > > proprietary i386 software on amd64 systems.
> > s/proprietary// ; there you have your obvious case.
> Not really, because then the most logical solution would be to fix the
> few packages which are not 64 bits clean yet.

64-bits cleanness is not the sole reason to run 32 bits applications on
64 bits systems.

Mike


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