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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