yum vs. apt

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:50:35PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:22:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > > and apt does not
> > > handle multi-arch (i386 vs x86_64, PPC, ...).
> > In its native environment it does this just fine. Debian boasts 13 or so 
> > architechtures and such a limitation would be intolerable
> 
> I think you're misunderstanding. It's not a question of whether it can
> handle different architectures at all (it certainly can) but whether it can
> properly handle the mix-n-match thing that x86_64 Fedora Core uses. I
> believe Debian has opted to avoid the problem entirely by sticking to pure
> 64bit apps on x86_64.

AFAIK Debian has the x86_64 builds (Pure64) out of the canonical list
od distributions for exact that reason. They don't want to use
multilib/rpm colors and overlapping packages but cleanly separate the
packages apart.

That's a noble cause, but may take a while to be acomplished. Hope
there will still be x86_64 archs around when that happens ;)

Since (currently) apt's development is Debian driven and Debian sees
no reason to invest in overlapping packages multilib functionality
seems to not make it easily into apt :/
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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