On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 22:49 -0400, Michel Salim wrote: > I do think it makes sense for yum to install both i386 and x86_64 > variants of a package, if both are available, unless specified > otherwise. What I don't think makes sense, though, is having /so/ many > i386 packages available in the x86_64 tree, and thus also in the > installation media. > > Having 32-bit libraries makes sense, for the purpose of running legacy > closed-source applications. Having i386 -devel packages... does not. > What's the point, without a 32-bit compiler to go along? > > And then there are the i386 applications: firefox, gaim, etc. These > get installed by default (there's no way I can see to exclude i386 > packages short of using kickstart). Removing them should be > straightforward, right? Just yum --remove glibc.i686. But it's not > that simple: > > 1. Often times, removing a 32-bit package also removes the files > shared with the 64-bit sibling. > 2. With the default FC6 install, I get a circular dependency when > trying to remove glibc.i686. It never displays the final list of > affected packages. > > Would it be possible, for FC7, to limit the 32-bit packages included > in -core to only the 32-bit libraries? Anything that installs to > /usr/bin should be excluded. Maybe include a core-i386 repository that > is by default disabled, for users who need 32-bit apps. > > -- > Michel Salim > http://salimma.livejournal.com/ > Maybe this will be a good time to resurface this thread: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00709.html - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
