On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 17:33 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:00:50PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > >> just > >> to have a suiteable kernel would be quite a burden. > > > > The -amd64 kernel in i386 arch is some sort of upgrade tool. With > > multi-arch it gets easier. Either the machine can run 64bit code, than > > it is irrelevant what packages are installed from which arch. Or it > > can't, then you don't need the amd64 kernel in the first place. > > > > Bastian > > Actualy that raises an interesting point: > > If there is no 64bit kernel in i386 then you can not safely enable > multiarch to install amd64 packages (in general, kernel my just > work). It is kind of a prerequisite.
By the same argument you can't ever enable any foreign architecture. This is nonsense. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. - Robert Coveyou
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