Hi,
IMHO, we already have multiarch support; I come from Debian and I really
don't see any substantial difference with what we have in Arch.
OK, in Arch you have to add a repo, but in Debian you have to tell dpkg to
accept "i386" as a secondary architecture (# dpkg --add-architecture i386).
If you don't do that you don't get multiarch neither in Arch nor in Debian.
Everything else is absolutely the same for both users and mantainers: user
will still have to explicitly tell the package manager that they want a
32-bit package and mantainers will still have to compile packages for both
architectures.
I may be missing something, of course.
Greeting,
Eugenio
2014-09-26 1:08 GMT+02:00 Ranomier
I wrote my idea first on the irc, but i think here is a better place.
The idea is to give up multiarch repo and make pacman and archlinux capable for real multiarch support
That means u could install a 32bit package from the normal repos core, extra, community usw and not from multilib repo in 64bit arch. (example: pacman -S firefox:i386)
And that means package maintainer don´t have to maintain two 32bit packages, plus all 32bit package where available ob 64bit.
What are u guys thinking, about that ideas. What where the pro and cons, that i don´t see.
Greetings, Ranomier