Re: multiarch status update

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

Pierre Habouzit wrote:

> honnestly, please find *ONE* application where alternatives can't solve 
> your problem, and where upstream design would still allow to have both 
> instances installed. I've though hard enough, and I've found none.

You might want to have, say, multiple installations of apache (because 
the 32 bit version uses PHP and you use a proprietary PHP plugin), while 
you want to serve DVD images with your 64 bit apache (since apache 2.2 
isn't in unstable yet and so you need a 64 bit apache to handle > 2GB 
files on 32 bit platforms).

Your point still holds though, applications where coinstallation is 
needed are rare and in those cases applications can either implement a 
solution themselves or tell the user to use /usr/local or ~.

- tfheen