Re: Handling multilib

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Jakub Jelinek (jakub@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> We certainly need to include 32-bit gdb, so that people with 32-bit PPC
> CPUs can debug things.  But I agree it is better on ppc64 kernel to install
> just 64-bit gdb, 64-bit frysk, 64-bit strace and whatever else falls into
> this category of packages that handle both 32-bit and 64-bit processes
> in 64-bit incarnation, but 32-bit incarnation handles solely 32-bit ones.
> Some tools tightly coupled with the kernel for which sufficient ioctl 32-bit
> wrappers don't exist would fall here as well.

So, is your algorithm 'packages XYZ need to be installed as the largest
wordsize ABI supported', or 'packages XYZ need to be installed as an
architecture that matches the kernel installed'?

Bill

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