On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:03:11PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > In that case, you can have both 32bit and 64bit -libs installed (because > they don't conflict), but only one devel and one main package (because they > do conflict). Bingo! And you have the demand for a multilib development setup. And if the ppc/ppc64 versions differ in their usage of altivec which is passed over cflags and you really need two different fftw-config files? > So now you're talking about full multiarch support. We can talk about > that, but that's a MAJOR change and needs a separate evaluation. We've been talking about that from the very start of the bin64 thread, that's not a new course of discussion. > > > You install either 32bit or 64bit version and use that. Why switch > > > at all? > > > > So you never wanted to check how mplayer on i386/x86_64 behave? FWIW > > most users install mplayer.x86_64 and when they hit on something that > > doesn't work they are desperate about getting the i386 version. Same > > for firefox until now. > > yum remove mplayer && yum --enablerepo=\*i386 install mplayer. What's > the problem? On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:32:15PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > # yum install mplayer.i386 > file /usr/bin/mplayer from mplayer.i386 conflicts with file /usr/bin/mplayer from installed mplayer.x86_64 > <rant> > # yum remove mplayer > mplayer is needed by ... > <rant, rant, rant> > # rpm -e --nodeps mplayer > # yum install mplayer.i386 > <wait, wait, wait> > # mplayer foo > <hm, mplayer.i386 cannot play it either, or I just want my x86_64 version back> > # yum install mplayer.x86_64 > file /usr/bin/mplayer from mplayer.x86_64 conflicts with file /usr/bin/mplayer from installed mplayer.i386 > <argh, slamming keyboard against the display> > # rpm -e --nodeps mplayer.x86_64; yum install mplayer > Sorry, you are offline, please try later > <throwing the laptop off the plane> > > The better solution: > > # yum install mplayer.i386 > # goi386 mplayer foo > <hm, mplayer.i386 cannot play it either, or I just want my x86_64 version back> > # mplayer foo > <OK, that was smooth, now I have time for solving the world hunger problem> -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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