[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#716860: Bug#716860: I have the same issue

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Wed, July 24, 2013 12:41, Rafał Pietrak wrote:
> Thenx Thijs for quick response,
>
> I've looked up the debian-7 release notes, and its section on
> multiarchitecture - regretibly it doesn't explain much (like: how to
> have fine-controll over it), just confirms what you say.
>
> Anyway. I did:
> # dpkg --add-architecture i386
> # apt-get update
>
> but after that, my:
> # apt-get install ia32-libs
> ... offers me to install tons of 32-bit software&libraries; quite like
> it was now necessary to double my system for 32-bit architecture. I'm
> quite reluctant to let it go.

This is expected. The difference is that in the past you "just" installed
ia32-libs but that package was 250MB big and contained all those
libraries, now just the individual libraries are installed.

> isn't there a way (any way) to install just the required packages
> (required, by the offending thrd party software) ?

There is, that's the whole advantage of Multiarch over the old ia32-libs.
The 3rd party just needs to change their package to not depend on
ia32-libs but only on the relevant 32 bit libraries they need.


Thijs