On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:45:17PM +0200, AKL. Mantas Kriauciunas wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:30:09AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:37:36AM +0300, Mantas KriauÄiÅnas wrote: > > > In package libc6-i686 description I see this info: > > > > > > This set of libraries is optimized for i686 machines, and will only be > > > used > > > if you are running a 2.6 kernel on an i686 class CPU (check the output > > > of > > > `uname -m'). This includes Pentium Pro, Pentium II/III/IV, Celeron CPU's > > > and similar class CPU's (including clones such as AMD Athlon/Opteron, VIA > > > C3 Nehemiah, but not VIA C3 Ezla). > > > > > > This package includes support for NPTL. > > > > > > As I understant from this information, most systems, which have these CPUs > > > should have installed libc6-i686 package, so please add libc6-i686 to > > > recommends field of all kernel-image-2.6*-k7* and kernel-image-2.6*-686* > > > packages. Also I think, that all kernel-image-2.6*-amd64* packages should > > > recommend libc6-i686 too. > > > > I am not so sure this is a good idea as libc is a part of the > > base system, and thus not usually (ever?) included in a > > package's dependancies. > > It seems you don't understand me. libc is a part of the base system, but > not libc6-i686. There is no package in debian, which depends or > recommends libc6-i686 package, so in most systems with 2.6-686 and k7 > kernel this package isn't installed :( You can view this situation from > popularity-contest results - about 1500 people have kernel-image 2.6.x-686 > and 2.6.x-k7 installed (acoording to > http://popcon.debian.org/main/base/by_inst ) but only less than 400 have > libc6-i686 package installed > ( http://popcon.debian.org/main/libs/by_inst ) > > Kernel-images 2.6.x-686 and 2.6.x-k7 shoud recommend libc6-i686, because > libc6-686 improves system performance when running with 2.6.x-686 > and 2.6.x-k7 kernel-images.
Thanks for the clarification. I now agree with your suggestion. I will get it into the tree, but my TODO list is rather long today. -- Horms
