* Andy MacKay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > There are two things being said here, and they aren't necessarily > contradictory. The first is the argument that being able to > simultaneously install -dev packages from multiple sub-architectures > will make things hugely complicated. The second is the argument that on > an AMD64 system, because the hardware happens to be able to run i386 > binaries with no performance penalty, developers *may* want to be able > to build i386 binaries without resorting to a chroot.
Unfortunately it's more complicated than that, there's also the issue
that people want to be able to run closed-source binaries built for i386
on amd64.
Stephen
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