On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:12:46PM +0100, A J Stiles wrote: > I honestly don't see the need for ia32-apt-get. > > What's wrong with just, you know, compiling your software for a 64-bit > architecture in the first place? So why my I ask are you using debian and not something like gentoo, or I am guess you just download all the tar's/bz etc and build from there :) ia32-apt-get filled a niche solved a lot of problems for people for a lot of amd64 users. Yes it would be nice to have all the stuff we need work in 64 mode, but it doesn't yes it would me nice to multiarch working but it isn't > > The only conceivable reason why anyone might want to run software compiled for > 32-bits on a 64-bit machine is that they didn't have the Source Code. And if > you don't have the Source Code -- which is your *only* guarantee that the > software isn't going to do nasty things -- you certainly should not be > running it in an unprotected environment. > > Closed-source software should only ever be run in a chroot, on a virtual > machine, or on a physically separate machine firewalled off from the rest of > the network. Anything else is just not safe. > -- "There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right." - George W. Bush 03/13/2002 Washington, DC
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