On 4/25/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [openoffice and libraries]
> It's probably easier to write an installer that fetches and installes > the i386 debs on the fly. Maybe it is just because of my research background, but I am looking for a solution that can be generalised. So it should work for other applications, too, including third party binaries if possible (think alien). And I have to admit that an automated installer has its benefits there. You could just give it an executable, and it checks and updates the chroot, sets the library pathes etc... and it could interact with dpkg in both systems, which means that it could bridge the "dependency divide". So does it generalise to true multiarch support? Yes, I think it could. It wouldn't matter which architecture you have, and which you want to run, the problem is always (mostly) the same. The only question is how it relates to dpkg/apt-get. Is it like a generalisation of dpkg, with multiarch support? No, dpkg would still be used. Maybe like apt-get with multiarch support? Yes, that seems closer. Or is it more like alien, a stop gap that usually works? In the beginning, most likely yes. And the beauty is that the existing infrastructure does not have to be changed at all. Thomas