Hector Oron <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> 2010/5/3 Neil Williams <[email protected]>:
>> As noted, the old defaults have already been removed but the variables
>> are still (theoretically) active.
>>
>> Anyone still need these variables?
>>
>> Can we drop all support for reading these variables?
>
> I wonder if we need that for some kind of (future) sysroot support or
> just people wanting to use a directory to build their trees aside from
> multiarch.
>
> Cheers,

There is no future in dpkg-cross. :) I don't think dpkg-cross has to
take the long view, it only has to work till multiarch takes over.

To make a sysroot with multiarch you do

   dpkg --root=/my/own/sysroot/ -i foo.deb

or use chroot.

MfG
        Goswin


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