Smart package manager (was Re: Making update functionality more usable (Was: Re: What next?))

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Sat Jun 11 03:56:27 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 21:29 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> That's not what multilib means.  It means the ability to take into
> account 32 and 64 bit libs and apps, and properly satisfy dependencies
> as appropriate.  For example, if on a 64 bit arch I want to install a 32
> bit app, the package management tool has to know that if the app
> requires libabc, it needs to find a 32 bit libabc to satisfy the dep
> (whether or not the 64 bit libabc is install or available has no
> relevance).

Gotcha.  Thanks, I understand now.  Maybe somebody with a 64-bit machine
can try it out and let us know for sure?

- C





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