Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On 10/19/06, Denis Leroy <> wrote: >> > They should do "yum install foo.x86_64" instead of just "yum install >> > foo", also when they update they shouldn't do piecemeal updates. > > how about the dependencies yum is fetching ? > Usually those are library deps and a 64 bit app will drag in 64 bit libs etc. The only problem ATM is deps for -devel packages where installing a -devel packages who's base package isn't installed yet will drag in the base package for both archs. >> just add this to /etc/yum.conf >> exclude=*.i386 *.i686 *.i586 *.athlon > > Should this be included by default for x86_64 ? > user joe won't figure it out like this. > Well that would have meant untill recently no openoffice for example, just excluding anything i386 is not a good idea. Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
