On 5/10/06, Matt Taggart and others <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For a couple years now a few of us have been talking about an idea called "multiarch". This is a way to seamlessly allow support for multiple different binary targets on the same system, for example running both i386-linux-gnu and amd64-linux-gnu binaries on the same system (many other working combinations exist as well). I have created a new page in the wiki to track info and status
Does it also allow completely arbitrary combinations to be installed?
* allow for seamless large ABI transitions * allow users to smoothly migrate from one arch to another * do things like "partial architectures" so that we can add weird processor variants without needing to add an entire new port to the pool/mirrors * better assimilate the *BSD kernels and userspaces * better support non-monopoly archs, since they may be able to run bits for other archs * maybe even to do stuff like use non-native archs (with support for other binary targets) to build native bits (m68k emulator on superfast amd64?). * other cool stuff
Does it also allow multiple versions of the same package to be installed at the same time? For example, multiple minor versions or multiple major versions?
