On Tuesday 11 September 2007 03:11:38 pm you wrote:
> > On Monday 10 September 2007 01:57:07 pm Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > If you *really* want to file a release-critical bug about this
> >> > somewhere, file it instead against dpkg for lack of multiarch support
> >> > sufficient to allow obsoleting ia32-libs ...
> >
> > if you *really* want to get your point across, don't forget to cc the
> > submitter...
>
> From: Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I did. Well, I TOed you and CCed the bug.

... and i was talking to bdale, the one who said it in the first place.  i 
even made sure i kept him in the attribution lines to keep that clear :)

> > but in any event, "lack of $feature to allow obsoleting $package" is not
> > really justification for allowing $package to remain in violation of
> > policy.
>
> I wasn't talking about full multiarch. Just being able to link.

again, was talking to bdale's response.  sorry that my current mua doesn't 
support group-reply which would have made things clearer...

> The other problem and reason for /emul/ia32-linux is

<snip ia64 kernel stuff>

> So at least on ia64 we can't just abandon /emul/ia32-linux. The best
> we could do is link it somewhere else. But then what would we win? And
> don't forget the trouble of changing a directory into a symlink.

you'd win removing 81MB from the the root partition in a non-standard place 
and which maybe might otherwise be in use by an unsuspecting admin who 
believes that his system is fhs-compliant. 

believe it or not, i found out about /emul after some wierd stuff started 
happening in my 32-bit chroot for playing windows based games via 
wine/cedega.  for some reason i had decided to call this directory... /emul.


        sean

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