On 05/04/2010 07:53 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Hi, > > Could somebody provide some insight why Fedora ships a > perl-*i686.rpm package for x86_64? > > I don't understand this. My feel is this doesn't make sense and actually > is a distro composition bug. > > Ralf > -- > Fedora Extras Perl SIG > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl > perl-devel mailing list > perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel > Some languages are distributed for x86_64 with both variant e.g. tcl, because some libraries doesn't work with x86_64 interpreter. We didn't ship perl-5.8.8 for both archs and I don't know about any reason why it changed. I file a ticket for rel-eng: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/3695 Regards, Marcela -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl perl-devel mailing list perl-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/perl-devel
