DMD Deb from d-apt [was DMD RPM]

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 15:13 +0000, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 July 2016 at 14:11:12 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Is there any sound reason why the 64-bit DMD RPM file pulls in 
> > vast quantities of i686 packages on Fedora? I want 64-bit not 
> > 32-bit.
> 
> Very likely it has same packaging mistake as DMD in d-apt, 
> listing gcc-multilib dependencies as mandatory and not optional, 
> even if you are never going to cross-compile for i686

That does seem very bizarre: I had missed that. I guess that as I
remove all the last vestiges of multiarch stuff then DMD will be
exiting itself from my Debian computers.

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