Andreas Beckmann <deb...@abeckmann.de> writes:
> On 2012-09-02 19:03, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> glx-alternative-nvidia, which is the current version, is tagged
>> Multi-Arch: foreign.

> nvidia-alternative is the more interesting package here and it is M-A:
> foreign, too. That's sufficient to install the native version of
> nvidia-alternative. (And you probably can't install
> nvidia-alternative:i386 on amd64)

Oh, doh, right.  I forgot that M-A: foreign stops the architecture chain
and allows further dependencies to be satisfied by the other architecture.
So yes, I'm not sure why you'd need to install the i386 version of that
package on amd64 either.

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Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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