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

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Subject: Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]
From: Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:06:55 -0600
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On 13-Jan-04, 10:32 (CST), Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.cx> wrote: 
> 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.

Non-technical users might want to install those unofficial i386 packages
on their powerpc, too, but it ain't gonna work.

Steve
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Steve Greenland
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    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
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