[wplug] 386 vs 586

Eric C. Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Wed Feb 2 11:23:48 EST 2005


On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:07:26AM -0500, Jonathan S Billings wrote:
> Arnaud Loos wrote:
> >Interesting. There is a 686 version of the package available but it's only
> >40K in size vs. 2.5 MB for the 386 and 586 versions. This just didn't seem
> >right to me. Any ideas? 
> 
> The 686 package could just contain the mplayer binary, while the other 
> packages include the codecs and documentation as well as the 
> 386-optimised binary.

No need to guess -- apt-cache is your friend:

$ apt-cache show mplayer-686
Package: mplayer-686
Priority: extra
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 92
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat at debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: mplayer
Version: 1:1.0-pre6-sarge0.2
Depends: mplayer-586
Filename: dists/testing/main/binary-i386/mplayer-686_1.0-pre6-sarge0.2_i386.deb
Size: 55682
MD5sum: 2a63f14308899bddf6c6e376e81f135c
Description: transitional dummy package which can be safely removed
 Dummy package to upgrade to the new package mplayer-586

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u


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