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ia32-libs package

  1. Bug #821100
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 821100

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 821100] Re: ia32-libs does not install /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:52:40PM -0000, Jason Wood wrote:
> Why not just have this package depend on the genuine mesa i386 packages?

Because cross-architecture dependencies on libraries are not supported.

> If having the libraries in /usr/lib32 is important for some reason, why
> not just have this package install a few symlinks as well?

It should do something like this. It doesn't today because no developer has
committed to making the effort to implementing it.

Personally, I'm not going to spend any energy on it; there's enough work to
do just getting rid of ia32-libs.

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