On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:37:50PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > No, I don't think so. Coming up with random maybe-somewhat-working > solutions to cross-installing packages will only take a proper solution > take more time to get implemented, since people will be less interested > in fixing the problem once their pet problem goes away. > > | Not arguing about the merits of the specific implementation of > | ia32-apt-get, the approach had the advantage that a, say, synaptic > | user can use it. A chroot does not enjoy that good property. > > unless it broke apt completely, requiring more hand-holding than > constructing a chroot, you mean?
You are stretching my arguments. I did not touch the (de)merits of ia32-apt-get with my post, on purpose, and I've even said that explicitly in my text. I've just pointed out that the "use a chroot, is not that hard" argument is simply bogus since not all our users are power users. We are trying to build the universal operating system here. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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