On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:03:57PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Several people already have voiced their wish to install a flash > plugin for mozilla. That would mean installing a 32bit i386 mozilla > even though we have a 64bit amd64 mozilla.
Yes. > The need for choice is there. Your proposal would require mozilla for > amd64 to be renamed mozilla-amd64. And all plugins need to be changed > to have the right Build-Depends too. and so on for every other package > that needs the choice. That's easy to solve in my proposal. Provide the flash support in a package with i386 architecture (or install any other package which is i386 architecture and depends on mozilla -- an empty locally created package would work fine). Dependency resolution will do the rest. > > It's based on pure64 with simple changes to only a very small number of > > packages (gcc toolchain, dpkg tools, and maybe a handful of others). > Not possible for sarge and not feasable for sarge+1 (since multiarch > will replace it the moment sarge is released anyway). There are no conflicts between my proposal and the multiarch proposals which I've read. -- Raul
