On 2014-12-29 21:35 +0100, Raphaël Halimi wrote: > On an amd64 Sid system, steam (i386 only) depends on xterm | > x-terminal-emulator. I already have mate-terminal installed, which > provides x-terminal-emulator, but both apt and aptitude don't care and > want to install xterm along with steam. > > Shouldn't apt be happy with mate-terminal:amd64 and install steam > without pulling xterm in ?
No, because (unlike xterm) mate-terminal is not marked as "Multi-Arch: foreign" and thus cannot fulfill dependencies of packages from a different architecture[1]. Cheers, Sven 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec#Binary_package_control_fields -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87h9wedtyi....@turtle.gmx.de