This one time, at band camp, Tollef Fog Heen said: > ]] Stephen Gran > > | Put another way, I can't think of a valid use for an amd64 binary > | depending on a ppc32 binary. > > Package: foo > Depends: sed > > (sed is Essential: yes, but I think you get the point.)
I don't see what the architecture of sed has to do with it in that example. My main point was that I don't see why a binary of one architecture will need to explicitly depend on a binary of another architecture *and the architecure of that second binary matters*. Sorry if that last point wasn't clear. Of course there will be shell scripts and so on that will execute whatever binary happens to be first in PATH, but that's not an explicit architecture relationship that calls for the sort of grotesquery mentioned. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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