bizarre multi-arch error

[Jeff Johnson]

On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Neal Becker wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 February 2007, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>>> What?!? Install a i386 package to satisfy x86_64 requirements??  
>>> That's
>>> clearly wrong.
>>
>> If package A has a dependency on D and package B provides D, and
>> package A and B are both installable, there's nothing wrong in
>> satisfying one with the other, from a dependency solver point
>> of view.
>
> Even if it's the wrong arch?

If there is no means to distinguish between two packages that satisfy  
a dependency, yes.

FWIW, firefox.i386 will run on x86_64. In fact, mozilla.i386 used to  
be shipped on x86_64
by default.

But there's nothing wrong with expecting arch affinity from  
depsolvers ;-)

73 de Jeff