On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > If there is no 64bit kernel in i386 then you can not safely enable > multiarch to install amd64 packages (in general, kernel my just > work). It is kind of a prerequisite.
qemu-user?
Of course, this particular combination is quite bizarre as no non-embedded
i386 CPU manufactured today can't execute amd64 code directly (Intel had a
throwback in early Atoms but even that is gone). Yet I personally did need
to run qemu-system-amd64 on i386 on one occasion, many years ago.
So I think there should be a way to mark architectures as one of:
a) primary (can be ran efficiently)
b) configured for execution (qemu, unwanted variants)
c) data/headers only (cross-compilation)
Group b) should be avoided by apt when possible, and it should refuse to
install any executables from c) unless forced. Not sure what to check for
-- having any files in /{usr/,}{s}bin ?
This way people would be safe from accidentally installing binaries that
don't work or work slowly.
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