Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > And hey, the "good" reason was "diverting the package management tools > is unacceptable". But, no, we have to do insults instead of arguing.
Alas, despite the diversion of the package management tools, I find ia32- apt-get pretty useful. For instance, I wanted to test Firefox 3.5 in 32bits on my amd64 Debian (64bit Firefox 3.5 does not have the new tracemonkey javascript engine). With ia32-apt-get, I could install the 32bit version of my GTK theme engine so that Firefox can look good. Is there a design problem in converting 32bits libraries to ia32-* packages or the sole problem is the diversion of apt-get and co? If there's no design flaw, wouldn't ia32-archive be the correct path? I mean a system to install converted packages which is set apart the package management system (until the actual package installation of course)? Yannick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
