On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 04:18:20PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:41:35 +0200 > Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: > > > - running a gdb:amd64 on i386 to debug 64bit binaries. This is the > > reason for our current gdb64 package on i386, but it is missing the > > support for the python based pretty printer. > > Installing gdb:amd64 on i386 in wheezy will remove the whole i386 > > python stack and then install the amd64 python stack. For this use > > case the needed amd64 python stuff should just be installed without > > removing the i386 packages. > > > > - install vim for a foreign architecture. Ok, not really a good use case, > > but it comes with an insane amount of embedded interpreters. It > > should be installable without removing the "native" interpreter > > packages, and the embedded interpreters should still be usable. > > Hmm, is this really a strong use case? vim-tiny can be a pain > sometimes, I know, but are those embedded interpreters in vim-full all > that useful? (Or am I missing something?)
They're useful if you want to use or develop plugins for Vim that use those language bindings instead of basic vim script. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
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