On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:43:00 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Why is it that ia32-libs provides all of these 32-bit libs as a > monolithic package anyway? Wouldn't the saner solution be to provide > each desired 32-bit lib from the original source package for that lib > (for example bzip2 provides lib32bz2, lib32bz2-dev, etc)? In that case > ia32-libs is could just be a metapackage, rather than the mess it is > currently. Obviously this solution will need to be deferred to wheezy > (perhaps as a release goal?) since time is short for squeeze. > No. Your suggestion makes a mess out of a thousand packages. At least the crap we have now is contained. Cheers, Julien
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