On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:30:50PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > I think this discussion has veered way off track. > glibc is the bottom line. If you cannot install multiple subarchs of > glibc in parallel, then multiarch support is basically broken: you > *cannot* run i386 binaries on a system with an amd64 glibc (without a > chroot, which isn't a solution for users) and the backwards compatibility > of the platform is completely lost. Likewise if you install a i386 glibc > on a user's amd64 machine, they might as well have bought a pentium. > --purge and --reinstall to switch subarchs is just not a valid option for > glibc, on which just about every debian package depends.
No, you've missed the point. Glibc already handles this issue. It's a matter of "everything else"... -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
