On 02/10/2012 10:15 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> writes:
> 
>> For example, suppose I'm doing development on an amd64 box targeting armel
>> and I want to use Kerberos libraries in my armel application.  I'd like to
>> be able to install the armel Kerberos libraries on my Debian system using
>> regular package management commands, just like any other package.
> 
> Just add a --sysroot option to the packager (that also transparently
> translates symlinks), case closed.

Eaxctly: the packager should install packages inside the sysroot.
This is so obvious that it's hard to believe anyone would do it
differently.

Andrew.

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