On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:33:25PM +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > >There is a simple patch by the CERN folks used for ia64 by spliting > >apt's processing of i386 and ia64 into different package worlds (in > >apt-rpm's archives). Can that be used as for an initial multilib > >approach? > > Ugh, no thanks. Feel free to patch your version of apt with it, but from > my POV it's just too ugly to live with. Well, uglyness is the essence of coding. ;) But, seriously, would that patch do its job and get apt up to multilib? > >apt's lack of multilib is a PITA, but you must also consider that > >apt's development community has only one member coming from the > >multilib world, the masochist sharing Panu's mail address ... ;) > > ...and even I'm not really from "multilib world" since I don't have x86_64 > boxes at home. My next system is going to be that but whether it happens > this year, next year or the one after that I dunno :) OK, then apt has no developer that could look after multilib support. No wonder that it is still not there (and will probably never make it). It's a catch22 (FC does not support apt, because apt has no multilib, and apt has no multilib, because FC has no (multilib) developers assigned to it :) Thankfully yum and smart are growing fast enough to fill the gap in 64bit world. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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