On Jo, 13 dec 12, 22:59:30, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 12/13/2012 01:51 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Mi, 12 dec 12, 23:03:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >>Citrix is the holdback requiring me to have ia32-libs installed. > >Take the i386 package instead ;) > > > Wont that need the 32-bit libraries as well? What would be the > advantage.
Compare 'apt-cache depends ia32-libs-i386' with the dependencies of the i386 package. The new ia32-libs (transition package) indirectly (via ia32-libs-i386) depends on *all* 32bit libraries previously contained in ia32-libs. It's possible you don't need them all, and even if you did, the direct dependency is usually better. Consider a case of a 32bit-only application depending only on libsqlite. With the i386 package you would have this: Package: foo:i386 Depends: libsqlite3-0:i386 With the amd64 package you would have this: Package: foo:amd64 Depends: ia32-libs:amd64 Package: ia32-libs:amd64 Depends: ia32-libs-i386:i386 Package: ia32-libs-i386:i386 Depends: libsqlite3-0:i386, [another *116* libraries] Which one do you think is more robust and brings in less dependencies? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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