@Alberto Milone, sorry to bother you, could you check this bug?
I was trying to understand why the NVIDIA driver package installs an empty
alt_ld.so.conf file.
Then I found the commit that added this change by you in Oneiric:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/utopic/nvidia-graphics-drivers/utopic/revision/44
I still don't understand the reason.
The changelog says:
Use an empty ld.so.conf when installing alternative for the
non-native arch, otherwise it would be impossible to switch
to mesa without installing mesa for the same architecture.
And the subject of the added patch:
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Install an empty ld.so.conf for the fake alternative
This makes sure that we don't point at Nvidia's libraries and
only prevent from using mesa's ld.so.conf
Is this still necessary?
Right now, users running 64-bit systems who install the NVIDIA driver are not
able to run 32-bit programs (like Steam and Skype) because of that empty
alt_ld.so.conf.
Maybe that patch should be dropped or corrected?
Also, I saw a comment in debian/nvidia-current.postinst.in saying:
# Deal with multi-arch ugliness until dpkg supports multi-arch:
Doesn't Debian (and dpkg) support multi-arch now?
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