On 7/5/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
The big advantage is binary compatibility with the rest of the Linux world. While a pure port is certainly very elegant, I would not be able to actually use it, without having a separate installation for binary compatibility. Thomas
