Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Sure, native code is always better. But that still won't help when > > sharing binaries from other distros to and from Debian. Because those > > other commonly available binaries of which people think are so > > critical will be 32-bit. (I am referring to those evil flash plugins, > > acrobat, etc. in addition to the Quake mentioned by the previous > > poster. But UT and Starcraft are more my style.) > > They rarely come as deb and then having multiarch support in apt/dpkg > makes no difference at all.
I was referring needing to maintain an ia32 chroot. (Because ia32-libs can never be completely satisfactory.) Having multiarch would obviate the need for separate 32-bit package management. It would all become mainstream at that point. This would make it very easy for users and casual administrators to natively run 32-bit programs on the 64-bit system. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
