Friends -
My original post said:
> I have a really nice amd64 sid machine, which has run
> [...]
> I have never run a 32-bit binary on this computer, and
> don't see any reason to ... ever. If it's not built from
> published, 64-bit clean source code, it doesn't belong on
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> You apparently do not need OpenOffice.org.
Nope. It's not 64-bit clean source code. Besides, I'm
an old TeX-head, and TeX works just fine.
Jo Shields wrote:
> or lilo/grub
That's a strange special case, since I guess the BIOS jumps
to the boot sector code in 32-bit mode. I suppose in the long
run I could "fix" that problem by running LinuxBIOS.
How did grub manage to get built before the days of
/emul/ia32-linux? And that need can hardly explain libg2c0-dev
libgfortran0-dev. Unless someone rewrote grub in Fortran when
I wasn't looking. ;-)
Will multi-arch make the situation cleaner or dirtier for
people like me who only want support for one arch variant?
- Larry
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