Re: libc6

[Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>]

So then we would need to install both 32 and 64 bit binaries for each
package at the same time, cause otherwise it would be hard to resolve
questions about to whom /var/lib/bla belongs... and we need to make sure
that they would be able to hapily share data present in them...

but why you just wouldn't want to create clean 64bit distro by slowly
expanding the share of 64 bit packages (with no 32 binaries)...?

--Yarik

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:55:54AM -0700, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05 2003 at 10:39,
> Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:54:00AM -0700, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > >> Hmm, ok.. so to clarify I meant something like: /usr/amd64/{bin,lib}
> > >> Being able to seperate out the 64bit libs and binaries is the goal.
> > > Again - how would you resolve when you type in in command line "top" -
> > > which app it should use 32bit or 64bit?
> > 
> > The obvious answer seems to be "whichever is first in $PATH".  Is
> > there some case I'm missing where the user or system administrator
> > cannot get proper behavior by setting PATH (for example, set
> > PATH=/usr/amd64/bin:/usr/bin to prefer 64-bit executables)?
> 
> I 100% agree; simply assuming 64bit binaries are better is a _very_ flawed
> design; and imposes enourmous restrictions on just how rich the debian
> bi-arch support can be.
> 
> There are convenient tools to help manage your shell's environment, e.g.:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/env-switcher/
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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