> Plenty of other pieces of software such as WINE only work when 32-bit libraries are installed on a 64-bit system.
Funny to mention Wine specifically; they're implementing a more sophisticated Wine-on-Wine64 setup that, among other things, will make having 32-bit system libs unnecessary, through the power of Heaven's Gate, not unlike how Windows handles syscalls in real WoW64.
(As far as I understand it, Linux, having a stable syscall interface, just supports the old software interrupts for 32-bit syscalls, making this unnecessary. In fact, they seem to even work from a 64-bit process to some degree.)
Funny to mention Wine specifically; they're implementing a more sophisticated Wine-on-Wine64 setup that, among other things, will make having 32-bit system libs unnecessary, through the power of Heaven's Gate, not unlike how Windows handles syscalls in real WoW64.
(As far as I understand it, Linux, having a stable syscall interface, just supports the old software interrupts for 32-bit syscalls, making this unnecessary. In fact, they seem to even work from a 64-bit process to some degree.)