[Gllug] Debian 32/64 bitness (was Memory usage)

[Martin A. Brooks]

Peter Grandi wrote:
> Both are far from necessary, and such workarounds are needed
> only because of fundamental, stupid limitations in DPKG and/or
> APT, and consequently equally stupid parts of Debian packaging
> policy and practice (the filesystem standard and some established
> dumb practices are also to blame).

You've lost me.  What does dpkg and/or apt have to do with 
implementation of execution of 32 bit programs in a 64 bit environment? 
  Which limitations are we talking about, exactly?

>   For example, ask yourself: why is the major version of many
>   '.deb's repeated as a suffix to the package name? Why not
>   add the name of the architecture as another suffix? :-)

You've still lost me, could you explain your point in simpler terms, please?

Mart.

(who's a little behind on sleep, and might have missed the glaringly 
obvious.)
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