* Lennart Sorensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:54:06PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > apt-get install A::amd64; > > Should automatically uninstall the i386 version of A and install the > > amd64 version. > > If that's how it is going to behave, I will stick with a chroot for > 32bit. Much more useful then. I do have reason to want both the 32 and > 64bit versions of a program. I think many people do, especially > developers but also users.
Developers are unlikely to use the packaging system in the few cases
you've described. You havn't given any reason why a user would have any
use for it. There are quite a few reasons why trying to do such would
be very, very ugly and would undoubtably cause problems for both users
and developers.
Stephen
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