On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Trygve Laugst?l wrote:
> I think having 32 and 64 bit packages is the best, perhaps with some 
> clever logic in pkg-get to fetch the foo_64 package for the foo package. 
> The 64 bit package would have to depend on the 32 bit package. This is 
> definitely a useful subject to talk about in Z?rich over a beer.

the trouble is, sometimes you want the 32bit package,a nd sometimes, you
want the 64bit package. pkg-get cant read your mind :-}

(32bit for speed, 64bit for data space. except for amd64, apparently.
 then maybe the choice is 64bit for speed, 32bit for conservation of
 memory)

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