On Tuesday 05 July 2005 19:46, David Wood wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Hugo Mills wrote: > >> I guess I can only ask... what... on... earth... was the problem? > > > > See below... > > Actually, I don't see where you've said what was objectionable about > multiarch. > > > Well, let's say you want to install a 32-bit xine. That's written > > in C, so you have to have a 32-bit glibc. So, you use dpkg to install > > the 32-bit version of glibc2. But... you can't, because you already > > *have* a package called glibc2 installed, which is the 64-bit version. > > No, you misunderstand. I don't expect that to work. It's obvious that if > you just made the directory structure switch you still have a long way to > go before you can install two different glibc packages. I'm just saying, > why not make the directory structure switch and then _start_ doing the > work of adding support to the package system/packages. Then, as I said:
Until you have a coherent and generally acceptable plan for how to handle the hard bits is there any point doing anything (other than as proof-of-concept)? If you start migrating things before the long-term strategy has been agreed you risk having to do another migration because you got it wrong. Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]