On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Ranomier <ranomier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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) > I personally find this approach better and more transparent than what Debian does. I'm not sure how they manage multiarch, but on debian I also cannot tell IF a given program uses 64 bit code at a time. I like how Arch's configuration is consistent and that in any given context, I can be certain it's using the bloated pointer type. I wanted to go as far as calling that approach of Debian names, but it's just not right now fitting into the tone of this email, so I leave that open to the reader. cheers! mar77i
