Bob Mitchel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In a couple posts, I noticed that multiarch (or > bi-arch) support was going to be worked on after the > release of sarge. I'd like very much to be able to > use my machine to its potential... can anyone give me > an estimate of when it will be avaliable, or point me > to a status page? Everything I have found seemed very > outdated, most of it being dated 2003 or even earlier. > > Thanks > Bob
Multiarch will still be a long time in coming. At least if you want to actualy use it. The current timeline is as follows: - get security support fully working - split the archive by architectures to reduce mirror bandwith - add amd64 to sid/etch - rebuild and upload all packages from an official buildd If we are not starting the etch freeze by then then the following can start: - add multiarch patch to gcc/binutils - patch dpkg/apt for multiarch - port ia32-libs to multiarch - port essentials to multiarch And only then you can actualy start using multiarch. But you don't realy gain anything by multiarch for amd64. Only 3 things come to my mind: OpenOffice, Flash support and w32codecs + 32bit mplayer. And only OO is in Debian. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]