* Xavier Roche <rocheml@httrack.com> [040116 12:51]: > This is not to throw another (slightly off-topic on devel-x86-64) > though, but I was (stupidely) wondering if the 32/64 packaging > questions and migration could not also be extended to a possibly "586 > optimized" packages asked by many folks (supposely 5% to 30% > performances increase) ; see related information at > http://debian-i586.sourceforge.net/ Definately. This is currenlty supported by my patches to dpkg [1], via a subarch table [2]. Note however that the issue of i386/i586 split system is a lot easier then i386/amd64 split system. The later has two different ABIs. [1] http://www.jukie.net/~bart/debian/amd64/packages/dpkg/ [2] http://www.jukie.net/~bart/debian/amd64/files/dpkg/subarchtable B. -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/
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