On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:50:35PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:22:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > and apt does not > > > handle multi-arch (i386 vs x86_64, PPC, ...). > > In its native environment it does this just fine. Debian boasts 13 or so > > architechtures and such a limitation would be intolerable > > I think you're misunderstanding. It's not a question of whether it can > handle different architectures at all (it certainly can) but whether it can > properly handle the mix-n-match thing that x86_64 Fedora Core uses. I > believe Debian has opted to avoid the problem entirely by sticking to pure > 64bit apps on x86_64. AFAIK Debian has the x86_64 builds (Pure64) out of the canonical list od distributions for exact that reason. They don't want to use multilib/rpm colors and overlapping packages but cleanly separate the packages apart. That's a noble cause, but may take a while to be acomplished. Hope there will still be x86_64 archs around when that happens ;) Since (currently) apt's development is Debian driven and Debian sees no reason to invest in overlapping packages multilib functionality seems to not make it easily into apt :/ -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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