Hi, IMHO, we already have multiarch support; I come from Debian and I really don't see any substantial difference with what we have in Arch. OK, in Arch you have to add a repo, but in Debian you have to tell dpkg to accept "i386" as a secondary architecture (# dpkg --add-architecture i386). If you don't do that you don't get multiarch neither in Arch nor in Debian. Everything else is absolutely the same for both users and mantainers: user will still have to explicitly tell the package manager that they want a 32-bit package and mantainers will still have to compile packages for both architectures. I may be missing something, of course. Greeting, Eugenio 2014-09-26 1:08 GMT+02:00 Ranomier <ranomier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I wrote my idea first on the irc, but i think here is a better place. > > The idea is to give up multiarch repo and make pacman and archlinux > capable for real multiarch support > > That means u could install a 32bit package from the normal repos core, > extra, community usw and not from multilib repo in 64bit arch. (example: > pacman -S firefox:i386) > > And that means package maintainer don´t have to maintain two 32bit > packages, > plus all 32bit package where available ob 64bit. > > What are u guys thinking, about that ideas. > What where the pro and cons, that i don´t see. > > Greetings, > Ranomier >
