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Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]



Chris Cheney dijo [Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:14:13AM -0600]:
> Since both RedHat and SuSE don't support multiarch systems there is little
> reason for Debian to either. Lets face it, the only reason Debian is even
> considering multiarch is for COMMERCIAL NON-FREE BINARY-ONLY crap to work,
> any company producing said software for Linux will want it to work on at
> least RedHat and SuSE...

Ummm... Not only for commercial non-free binary-only. Remember there
are many unofficial apt mirrors, mostly built for i386. Non-technical
users might want to install that packages on their AMD64 systems.

Greetings,

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