Re: [multiarch] Proposal for *-dev packages
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:30:50PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> I think this discussion has veered way off track.
> glibc is the bottom line. If you cannot install multiple subarchs of
> glibc in parallel, then multiarch support is basically broken: you
> *cannot* run i386 binaries on a system with an amd64 glibc (without a
> chroot, which isn't a solution for users) and the backwards compatibility
> of the platform is completely lost. Likewise if you install a i386 glibc
> on a user's amd64 machine, they might as well have bought a pentium.
> --purge and --reinstall to switch subarchs is just not a valid option for
> glibc, on which just about every debian package depends.
No, you've missed the point. Glibc already handles this issue. It's a
matter of "everything else"...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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