Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes: > Although I use amd64, I have yet to want to install any 32bit > software, so I'm not entirely sure what the use case is for it.
While I agree in general, I do occasionally want a more fully functional 32-bit system infrastructure. Typically this is when I need to compile a program which is buggy, and has 32-bit assumptions in it, or runs faster in 32-bit mode, or whatever. When all the libraries the program needs are available in ia32-libs, then gcc -m32 works great, but when they _aren't_, it can get miserable pretty quickly. So I love the _idea_ of a seamless automatic system for installing arbitrary 32-bit libraries on amd64. The current ia32-apt-get thing, seems pretty kludgey and fragile though... [I've reverted my systems to the old versions for the time being and have a lot of packages on hold... hopefully after a while either things will be a bit more solid or these changes will have been backed out.] -Miles -- Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org