Mike Hommey wrote: >On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:21:44PM +0100, Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> wrote: >> I think it would be very helpful if somebody could summarize why a >> multiarch system is useful, except for the obvious case of installing >> proprietary i386 software on amd64 systems.
>s/proprietary// ; there you have your obvious case. To hopefully amplify Mike's point, I currently have a 32bit chroot to run mozart-oz (needed for $WORK) on my amd64 desktop. I'm sure there are many other examples. Setting up a chroot is a barrier for many users (even if schroot and debootstrap make it fairly easy in practice on Debian). Of course all software should become 64bit clean eventually, but here we are. I suppose some motivated person could survey all the software in the archive that is present on i386 but not on amd64. All the best David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
