On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:26 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 04:22:33PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > The problem is that if this is done, then you require an i686 kernel > > (and it also changes the file lists). > > The kernel is already "special" in lots of ways, I don't really want to > > expand that specialness into other packages if I can help it (especially > > because it starts getting weirdly out of hand on other arches) > > Reasonable enough. > > What happens if I _do_ use the i686 kernel? (And remove i586?) Partly out of > morbid curiosity, but also because I don't want to support any pentium-class > systems with this distribution anyway... Everything should fall out fine. That's how Red Hat Enterprise Linux is (which is why that handling is there to begin with :). Jeremy