On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:45:43AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
you've described. You havn't given any reason why a user would have any use for it. There are quite a few reasons why trying to do such would
Hm, normally, I wouldn't need a firefox with flash plugin or a mplayer/xine with old codecs, so I would use the 64bit version. But sometimes I need flash, the realplayer or old video codecs. Of course I could build a chroot, but then I wouldn't need multiarch. So why don't create /usr/bin/i386 and /usr/bin/amd64 and populate /usr/bin with symlinks to the programs. You could build something like update-alternative, so admins can switch between the 32bit and 64bit version as default. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: Nur-Ab-Sal@gmx.de | | WWW: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/ | | PGP Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/pgp.html |
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