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Comment 43 for bug 831768

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Shahar Or (mightyiam) wrote : Re: [Bug 831768] Re: aptitude cannot handle conflicts with multiarch enabled

On 13 March 2012 18:18, Daniel Hartwig <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Packages from different architectures should definitely be displayed
>> as individual packages because:
>> ...
>
> That was my reasoning also.  This is much easier to implement and
> practically already done.

Woohoo!

>> What if I care? What if I want to see, in a search result or a
>> filtered view, both native and neutral architecture packages and to be
>> able to tell them apart from each other? Treating the neutral ones as
>> if they were native ones should be a deault - like
>> ?architecture(prefer-native) is - not a constraint.
>
> Configuration item to always show the ':<arch>' bit.  When enabled you
> will have both ':NATIVE' and ':all' displayed.
>
> Ideally, such an option will be implemented in APT and so also
> respected by apt-get and others.

Sure, I'll file a request against APT.

What exactly do we want? I'm not familiar with APT configurations.