* Raul Miller (moth@debian.org) wrote: > I dispute your half-ass assertion. > > biarch is useful for systems in transition. That means people upgrading > from 32 bit systems, and people working with packages which haven't been > ported -- for whatever reason. The vast majority of packages in Debian have *already* been ported. That's what pure64 *is*. The number of people 'upgrading' from 32bit systems is probably around 1 (that being you), the rest of us have moved on to pure64 already, and did so a long ass time ago. > There's little to no gain in making every package biarch. So there's > no point in calling a plan to not do so "half-ass". This is just blatently false. There certainly is gain in making every package supported on both architectures. It gives our users *options*. For the amd64 side, it allows programs (*all* of them) to use more than 2G of memory if they have a need to, it makes *most* of them run faster and more effeciently. We need the i386 stuff anyway since there are i386-only systems out there today. Perhaps some day we will be able to remove i386, but I don't expect that to happen anytime soon. > And, frankly, the current pure64 port already includes most of what > biarch needs. The current pure64 port has gone far beyond the half-ass biarch you're referring to. Unfortunately, you can't manage to see that. Stephen
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