Multilib lunar

[Auke Kok]

Dennis Veatch wrote:
> On Thursday 03 September 2009 8:02:49 am Peter de Ridder wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Dennis
>>
>> Veatch<dennisveatch at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>> On Thursday 03 September 2009 6:13:16 am Peter de Ridder wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Auke Kok<sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
>>>>> Peter de Ridder wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>> My motives are that some programs I want to use don't come in a 32-bit
>>>> version and more important I like to do it as a hobby project. So for
>>>> me it wouldn't be waste time, but spend time.
>>>> I know there are other solutions like chroot.
>>> Aside from those noted in this thread, would you mind listing the
>>> applications that makes this an important feature of lunar?
>> It is about the modules you noted later on. grub, wine and maybe some
>> other emulators. (I don't know all the modules, for me it is mostly
>> grub and wine). It is not my goal to make all modules in 64-bit and
>> 32-bit. Just to support those that really need 32-bit.
>> What is know of that needs 32-bit.
>> grub: not many or no dependencies.
> 
> I think grub is more of an up stream issue than anything else. If the 
> developers would just finish grub2 it would be a non-issue. qemu/kqemu compile 
> fine on x86_64 but have not tried any others.

grub2 will be DOA and nobody will use it. better put your bets on 
grub(1) for now. grub2 is a giant train wreck