Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]
On 14-Jan-04, 00:30 (CST), Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Dpkg won't let them whereas i386 on amd64 works fine now.
I understand that this can work. My point was that *in and of itself*,
the fact that most unofficial apt repositories are i386 should not
influence in the Debian amd64 design and implementation.
Steve
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