Re: Should 'dnf install gtk3-devel.i686' work?

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On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 09:38 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:10:22AM +0200, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 15:50 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > If you're on freshly installed Fedora 23 (x86-64), then
> > > 
> > >   dnf install gtk3-devel.x86_64
> > > ......
> > > 
> > > Is this a bug or is it not expected this would work or I am doing
> > > it
> > > wrong?
> > 
> > IMO trying to get this (i686 development environment on x86_64
> > native
> > install) to work reliably and chasing down all the corner cases is
> > futile, leads to confusion instead of improving the developer
> > experience in any significant way compared to using mock and should
> > be
> > declared unsupported.
> 
> The logical consequence of this is we would get rid of multilib
> entirely.

Not really. Runtime multilib is quite valuable feature, as any user of
closed source blobs (Steam!!) could attest.

- Yanko
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