On Monday, 24 September 2007 at 15:52, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 09:48 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > > If you are a developer and *want* the ability to do cross compiling, > > then I could see those people wanting multilib. > > Note that we're not talking about "multilib or not". We're talking about > whether to install a bunch of packages for the secondary architecture by > _default_. > > If you want to build a package (other than in mock), then you have to > install its dependencies -- a bunch of -devel packages. > > Would you expect those packages to be installed for you automatically, > just in _case_ you need them? That's the kind of thinking that leads to > wanting an 'Everything' install, isn't it? Indeed. +1 to turning this off by default. In fact, +1 to installing only 64bit packages on x86_64 install (while keeping the i386 versions in the repository, of course). Regards, R. -- Fedora contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
