? > and doesn't pollute the > package namespace with a lot of virtual packages. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think having two fields duplicated without any real technical advantage is adding to ugliness. >. > > Yes, exactly. And you need some differences in the algorithm that decides > > when to compile a package from source for a given architecture (the pool > > might contain a compatible but inferior binary package). > > But that's not a problem for the guy who makes the CD's. No, of course not. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian brinkmd@debian.org Marcus Brinkmann GNU marcus@gnu.org Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de