On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:03:03PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > It has a depends on ia32-libs. In Ubuntu ia32-libs now depends on > ia32-libs-multiarch, which if I install, will pull in a lot of i386 > arch of the packages. [...] > 1 upgraded, 190 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded. > Need to get 35.9 MB/60.7 MB of archives. > After this operation, 176 MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > > Is this really needed ?
It's not exactly much bigger than the monolithic ia32-libs in oneiric! ia32-libs-multiarch is a transitional hack intended to install multiarch equivalents of everything ia32-libs used to install so that packages that depend on ia32-libs still work; it's never going to end up being particularly small. Ideally, you'd just install crossover-pro:i386 and apt would follow only the :i386 dependencies it needs. This should just naturally work, and there should in principle be no need to force dependencies as another respondent suggests; this model is much more representative of the promise of multiarch than ia32-libs-multiarch is. It's possible that some work on dependency details is needed before this will work correctly with precise, but it would be better to aim for this. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
