Friends - I have a really nice amd64 sid machine, which has run solidly for over a year now. I really appreciate all the really hard work behind the scenes that keeps Debian unique and useful.
I have never run a 32-bit binary on this computer, and don't see any reason to ... ever. If it's not built from published, 64-bit clean source code, it doesn't belong on my computer. Recently files have started showing up in /emul/ia32-linux. Offending packages are libg2c0-dev, fakeroot, and libgfortran0-dev. I tried submitting bug reports for the first two: #341786 and #341788. The latter got merged with the inverse bug (amd64 junk showing up on i386 machines), #323285, and tagged "minor" and "wontfix". Shall I rm -rf /emul after every apt-get upgrade? Shouldn't there be a way to separate out compatibility cruft, either at the package or installer level? - Larry
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