On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Hugo Mills wrote:
The whole set of problems with the package management.
I don't understand. As far as I could see the problem you raised was what a (finished) multiarch solves.
As I think I said in my mail, I don't know enough about the library-building side of it to comment. I do recall that glibc6 and (I think) libvorbis were worked on by a couple of people -- one as an essential part of infrastructure, and the other as a "porting" example. I do recall that there were significant problems with both, but I don't recall what those problems were. It was over a year ago that this was done.
I keep saying it. There's a symlink. It's backwards-compatible! There is no package building involved to get started!
If I have /usr/lib and suddenly it becomes a symlink to /usr/lib/i386-linux/What's the problem? Yes, it will take work to _finish_, but why haven't we even _started_?