Public bug reported:
Firstly, Synaptic Package Manager is great! I use the 64bit version of ubuntu,
and have noticed that in Oneiric, for the majority of packages, synaptic
displays both architecture types now - i'm pretty sure that wasn't available in
Natty?
So, when i'm looking for a package e.g. "3dchess", i can now download 3dchess
or just beneath it is "3dchess:i386".
Correct me if i'm wrong, but before the days of html5, when 64bit flash
versions were scarce or non-existent (!), it meant doing a messy
workaround with nspluginwrapper to get the 32bit flash working on your
64bit browser, or downloading a 32bit version of your webbrowser - this
was a problem because in synaptic, it would give you the browser version
suited to your computer's architecture, and the only way to get a 32bit
version would be to go to their website etc
While this is a great addition to synaptic, and i imagine very helpful to those
of us testing/using programs under a different architecture, it does mean that
to the regular user, the package lists are considerably longer and there's more
to wade through.
So i have 2 questions:
1) Do 32bit oneiric users see something like "3dchess:amd64" i.e. do
they get to see/download 64bit programs or was this change for 64bit
users, for reasons conjectured above?
2) (I don't think this option exists?) Could you please add an option
somewhere (maybe a tick box) to "Only show packages of my architecture"
under "Settings-> Preferences -> Files" or "Settings -> Preferences ->
General" Something like that? Something that will make this new
behaviour optional?
I don't really mind this change because it does more good than not but
when i'm looking for packages in the list, the lists are of course
longer and when i think i've missed ticking something important, it's
actually the same package but i386!
Thanks for your time :)
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Opinion
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Opinion
** Summary changed:
- Option to only show user's architecture.
+ Option to only show packages of user's architecture.
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