* Raul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I dispute your half-ass assertion. > > biarch is useful for systems in transition. That means people upgrading > from 32 bit systems, and people working with packages which haven't been > ported -- for whatever reason.
The vast majority of packages in Debian have *already* been ported.
That's what pure64 *is*. The number of people 'upgrading' from 32bit
systems is probably around 1 (that being you), the rest of us have moved
on to pure64 already, and did so a long ass time ago.
> There's little to no gain in making every package biarch. So there's
> no point in calling a plan to not do so "half-ass".
This is just blatently false. There certainly is gain in making every
package supported on both architectures. It gives our users *options*.
For the amd64 side, it allows programs (*all* of them) to use more than
2G of memory if they have a need to, it makes *most* of them run faster
and more effeciently. We need the i386 stuff anyway since there are
i386-only systems out there today. Perhaps some day we will be able to
remove i386, but I don't expect that to happen anytime soon.
> And, frankly, the current pure64 port already includes most of what
> biarch needs.
The current pure64 port has gone far beyond the half-ass biarch you're
referring to. Unfortunately, you can't manage to see that.
Stephen
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