Hello Mark, Mark Allums <m...@allums.com> wrote: > However, there are still packages that depend > on it. Therefore, you need it if you have one of those packages.
Which packages? > The > Joker in the deck is that it has screwed up dependencies itself, and it > really should not be in sid. Sid, by definition, is broken. > If your system has a lot of packages > installed, like mine, you have to enable experimental, then install it. I have to admit I did not look into that any further, but, yes, the dependencies are rather screwed up: ia32-libs:amd64 depends on ia32-libs-i386, which is only available in the i386 architecture (and then able to pull in other i386 packages). > (When I naively install the transitional update, I got about thirty > *:i386 libraries and about a dozen packages from experimental upgraded > or installed. I am very nervous about it. ia32-libs (the old amd64 package) contains many, many i386 libraries - in order to get _all_ of them, it has to depend on all these i386 libraries, which in turn means that they all have to be multi-archified - this takes some time. Best, Claudius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121021214245.00c44...@ares.home.chubig.net
