Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
>> Once CPUs capable of running the AMD64 instruction set are commonly available
>> a straight AMD64 system with no 32bit compatibility will be better than PPC
>> on the basis of price and features.
>
> That is true, and I did ignore this aspect. However, by this logic,
> we should consider "amd64 architecture which offers 32 bit
> compatability" to trump "ppc architecture which does not".
>
> In other words, "that ppc doesn't have a /lib64" isn't sufficient reason
> to not use that system on amd64.
Powerpc has lib64. That's where powerpc64 libraries are suposed to end
up. Same story as on most (but not all!) multiarch systems.
The difference is that powerpc can happily live without lib64 while
amd64 can happily live without lib. The LSB definition of 'native'
does not coexist with 'prefered'.
MfG
Goswin
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