> install and remove operations are dramatically different, just think > of the dependency direction you need to check in both cases. ;) Think about doing them in a script or a template file for a system. All of a sudden having different behavior for them is quite confusing for a user. > The idea is to Do The Right Thing (TM), which is this case is to only > pull in compatibility packages when they are explicitely required like > for installing openoffice. And I'm talking about doing the right thing. Your concept of 'right' is just different. > The typical use should not include choosing archs at all. Currently > yum bundles by default i386 packages to x86_64 ones. So even a > non-multilib "native" [1] system becomes multilib on the first yum > upgrade ... > > [1] All but grub.i386 Boy, glad that won't cause any ambiguity. -sv
