On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Petr Pisar <ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2013-03-29, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> What's Architecture good for? To allow multilib. To install more > >> instances of the same version. And yum ignores Architecture on > >> purpose. But don't tell anybody that. Otherwise he could not claim > >> we do not implement parallel installation. > > > > Yum ignores arch? Since when? > > > > Maybe you're using the word 'ignores' in a way I'm not familiar > > with. > Yes, I used it a little metaphorically. I don't think you're using 'metaphorically' correctly here. Yum doesn't ignore arch and I think you should stop saying that, no matter what sense of the word 'ignores' you think you're using. > > > yum install foo.i386 does exactly what you think it does. > > > > yum install foo installs the bestarch is can find for that pkgname. > > > That's exactly the goal. Yum _understands_ architecture. It allows you > to install, upgrade, remove architecteruces independetly, yet it allow > to substistute one with another one to meet dependencies. > > Misusing names does not allow all of that. misusing? Is this, again, another metaphor? Please speak plainly. What do you mean here? Where is the misuse? -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
