RE: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question
Do you really do dfs any time you want to do anything on your computer?
Thanks,
Latchezar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Frost [mailto:sfrost@snowman.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 7:54 PM
> To: Latchezar Dimitrov
> Cc: Lennart Sorensen; David Wood; Hugo Mills; Goswin von
> Brederlow; debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question
>
> * Latchezar Dimitrov (ldimitro@wfubmc.edu) wrote:
> > > What's the reason for having both versions of a given app
> installed?
> > > I'm pretty sure it was decided that was a bad idea and that there
> > > wasn't any good use case for it and so we weren't going
> to try and
> > > support it.
> > > It just doesn't make sense.
> >
> > The only reason is to be able to run both of them at your
> discretion.
>
> apt-get install A::amd64;
> Should automatically uninstall the i386 version of A and install the
> amd64 version.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
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