On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 06:05:38PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > Le Thu, Apr 10, 2003, à 03:33:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman a écrit: > > > That way you could do something like: > > > > # echo x86-64 >> /etc/dpkg/legal-archs > > # dpkg -i libgtk2-2.0-1_i386.deb > > # dpkg -i lib64gtk2-2.0-1_x8664.deb > > Will we have to also have lib64gtk2.0-dev? Wouldn't that have pretty bad > inconvenient consequences on the build dependencies?
I'm not sure this is really a good approach. Some concerns: - the names of all library packages would change on a 64-bit architecture; this is a hassle for library packagers - Would you have libgtk2-dev_2.0-1_x8664.deb or lib64gtk2_2.0-1_x8664.deb? Hmm... thinking about it some more, basically every package you wanted to treat this way would have to support building a package with multiple names. We could make this easier in dpkg probably. And then you would only install i386 packages if there wasn't an x86-64 package with the same package name... -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
