Multiarch crazyiness

Laurent Rineau laurent.rineau__fedora at normalesup.org
Mon Oct 22 20:54:35 UTC 2007


On Monday 22 October 2007 21:56:24 Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:56:38 -0400
>
> Matthew Saltzman <mjs at CLEMSON.EDU> wrote:
> > So on those archs one would want a 64-bit kernel and 32-bit apps,
> > except for large-memory programs or those needing 64/128-bit
> > numerical types (self-developed code, for example)?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is that how it's actually handled by the installer?
>
> We prefer 32bit on those platforms.

What if I have a x86_64 platform and nevertheless want only a 64-bits kernel 
and almost all 32-bits apps ?

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