multiarch pulling in i386 packages

2012-02-02 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On my x86_64 Ubuntu install, I have CrossOver installed. Its package description looks like: Package: ia32-crossover-pro Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-free/otherosfs Installed-Size: 117268 Maintainer: CrossOver

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2012-02-02 Thread Chris Jones
I am a technical writer for a well known Linux website and am interesting in interviewing (via email) a Ubuntu developer who is working on 12.04. Is there any developers who would volunteer thier valuable time to answer a few questions that I have with Ubuntu 12.04 development? Thanks in

Re: multiarch pulling in i386 packages

2012-02-02 Thread Jordon Bedwell
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf r...@researchut.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On my x86_64 Ubuntu install, I have CrossOver installed. Its package description looks like: Package: ia32-crossover-pro Status: install ok installed Priority:

Re: multiarch pulling in i386 packages

2012-02-02 Thread Evan Huus
Historically, ia32-libs provided *all* of those libraries in one package. Ubuntu and Debian have now transitioned to a better method where the libraries are broken up into individual multi-arch packages so that other packages only have to pull in the ones they need. Until all other packages use

Re: multiarch pulling in i386 packages

2012-02-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:03:03PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: It has a depends on ia32-libs. In Ubuntu ia32-libs now depends on ia32-libs-multiarch, which if I install, will pull in a lot of i386 arch of the packages. [...] 1 upgraded, 190 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.

Re: multiarch pulling in i386 packages

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:03:03PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: It has a depends on ia32-libs. In Ubuntu ia32-libs ia32-libs-multiarch is a transitional hack Ideally, you'd just install crossover-pro:i386 and apt would follow I followed up with