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Re: Multiarch support (was Moving 32-bit libraries to (/usr)/lib32 on amd64)



On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:45:16AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:

> > After a discussion on IRC, it seems there is no consensus about how 
> > multiarch should be done. Therefore I stop working on that (patches are 
> > still welcome for glibc).

> Is this really the best thing to do?

> Even though there is no consensus (I overread the thread and anyway
> most parts of it fly in the stratosphere from my point of view), I'm
> not sure that abandoning the work is really the answer in this
> situation.

I didn't interpret this as "abandoning" the work.  I think this is the right
point to stop at on glibc right now -- we really need to have support for
multiarch in dpkg an apt before usefully proceeding further.

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