Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > multiple names. We could make this easier in dpkg probably. And then > you would only install i386 packages if there wasn't an x86-64 package > with the same package name...
For application that approach (use x86-64 if available, i386 otherwise) would likely work. But for library packages it must be possible to install 32bit and 64bit versions in parallel, so it must be possible to separate glibc 32bit + glibc 64bit somehow. Using different names for 32bit and 64bit shared library packages is IMHO not a bad idea to deal with the issue. Sure, you have to touch every f*cking library package to implement that, but you have to do that anyway to move the 64bit versions of the shared libraries to /lib64 (and this in turn is needed to be compatible with the rest of the world). Gerd -- Gerd Knorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>