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.
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