>>>>> Kristoffer Rose writes: KR> Marcus Brinkmann writes: >> Yes, there will be a certain degree of compatibility, even binary >> compatibility. But, and this is a big but, we still need our own >> kernel, translators, glibc, and some other low level stuff >> (network, etc).
KR> Just to complicate things: we really should make it possible to KR> have multi-platform installations. On alpha, for example, we KR> have something called `em86' which permits us to use i386 KR> binaries. This requires, of course, that they `see' i386 KR> libraries etc.: only the kernel remains the alpha one for them... This is exactly why I am arguing that Architecture should be reimplemented in terms of virtual packages that correspond to different ABIs, that we can use in the Depends field. It would require some reworking of dinstall (for one), but it would benefit a lot of things, and simplify dpkg's internals. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
