[systemd-devel] Add ARCH parameter to /etc/os-release

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Lennart Poettering 

> c) you can convert a 32bit debian userspace into a 64bit debian
>    userspace with just a bit of apt package installation?

No, you can run multiple ABIs at the same time.  Limiting yourself to
«32-bit» and «64-bit» is silly, you can transparently run, say, amd64,
i386 and arm code with dependencies between packages and such working
just fine.  It's not conversion, it's supporting multiple ABIs at the
same time, within the same file system hierarchy, within the same
namespaces.

> I wonder if it wouldn't be a better idea to somehow provide a sane API
> for this functionality rather than defining a configuration file format
> for it?

I'm not sure what problem the proposal is trying to solve.  Maybe it'd
be clearer if that was provided.

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