On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:40:24PM +0300, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 August 2006 13:15, Andreas Hanke wrote:
>
> > > AFAIK installing packages of different architectures must be
> > > allowed.
> >
> > Why "must"?
>
> x86-64 boxes still need 32bit software (flash, video codecs et al).
> And I take it this is the way things are going to be for long, long
> time. There will always be some commercial shonk that has not been
> ported to x86-64.
Note that we use (unlike e.g. fedora) different names for the
32bit packages. It is always an error on SUSE to install two
packages with the same name and different architecture.
Cheers,
Michael.
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