On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 15:18:55 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > To a first approximation, you never want to add an architecture. > > The various cases where you would: > > case: you are building a local mirror of multiple architectures. > solution: use real mirroring software. > > case: you are switching from x86-32 to amd64 > solution: OK, this is where you would want to use > --add-architecture, but a better solution is not to get int > this mess in the first place.
The most *common* case, though, is that you're using an amd64 system and you need to run an i386 program on it. In that situation, you can add the i386 architecture and download the i386 shared library packages that your i386 program requires. This should become less common over time, as new i386 programs stop being produced. Or so we can hope.
