>> Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * modify dpkg (already planned) to allow it to install packages from > different architectures on a system where it makes sense > * change the naming of the libraries, for example by adding '64' to > the 64bit version of a library > > That way you could do something like: > > # echo x86-64 >> /etc/dpkg/legal-archs > # dpkg -i libgtk2-2.0-1_i386.deb > # dpkg -i lib64gtk2-2.0-1_x8664.deb
That doesn't scale terribly well, does it? Everytime a new 64 bit architecture is introduced, all the library packages have to be updated by hand (instead of just being recompiled). The Arch field needs to be expanded, too, e.g. a la Brinkmann. -- Marcelo | "One o'clock pee em! Hello, Insert Name Here!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- The Dis-organizer | (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)