Re: Re: perl and multi-arch (was: Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly])
couldnt there just be an 'architecture preference' setting (in /etc/apt/preferences or something) that would tell apt to install packages for the preferred architecture, if they are available, and only consider packages for other 'compatible' architectures if there is no package for the 'preferred' arch?
Then apt would not even consider installing this package on an amd64 system:
Package: lib-a-perl
Architecture: i386
Depends: perl:i386
ABI: ia32
if this package was also available:
Package: lib-a-perl
Architecture: amd64
Depends: perl:amd64
ABI: amd64
or does this functionality already exist?
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