Comment 11 for bug 1122120

now continued in lp: #1164937

Colin:
> vim seems like a very tenuous use case, anyway. I can't think of a
> reason I'd want to install it from a foreign architecture.

vim was just used here as an example for an embedded interpreter. E.g. Installing the amd64 gdb on i386 with the embedded python interpreter to debug 64bit executables is a better use case. So please see vim just as an example.