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

[Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:06:55PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> 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.

Difference is that on the AMD64 systems it can be made to work.

Cheers,
aj

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