Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 08:23 +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: >> >> I suspect what is happening is the transition from ia32-libs to multiarch, >> and >> the non-free 3rd party packages have not been updated to work with the >> multiarch >> way of doing things. > > The disadvantage of upgrading from one release to the next release and > the disadvantage of rolling releases.
This has more to do with the disadvantage of non-free software or
external repositories in general.
> I can't speak for this particular case, but sometimes it seems to be
> less work to make a new install.
… which won't help in this case.
> Btw. the reason for me that perhaps will make me switch from Arch back
> to Debian.
Oh, please. You don't understand this particular problem but use it as a
reason for a switch anyway? I generelly don't understand why people
feel the need to announce their switch on this list
J.
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