Gmail makes it hard for me to follow long threads, so sorry if this response is a little out of place. What exactly is the purpose of installing 32bit binaries on a 64bit box? The only things I've been able to see in this thread is for installing proprietary applications. So we as the Fedora community, who are strongly dedicated to being open and free, are going to great lengths in order to make sure that we can better use proprietary applications/formats? Every time I do an install on one of my boxes I have to run my little "get rid of all the 32 bit rpms" script, otherwise I end up with weird dependancy hell problems. Granted the dependancy hell problems are usually my own doing by running some rawhide packages and such, but nevertheless the problems do not occur with just x86_64/noarch packages. I do not use flash, because I believe in what are supposedly the core values of Fedora. I do not use any proprietary software, because I believe in freedom and openness. Albeit there are plenty of users who do not share my views, I think that punishing us that do believe in everything that Fedora is supposed to be about should not be having to go out of their way in order to put their system back into a normal state. I think that if you wish to install proprietary software on your system, you should be the one who has to do clicky clicky in order to make it work, and not I who has to run this crappy script just to have a clean x86_64 install. I believe having anything but the default be non-multilib is sending the wrong kind of message, and is border line hypocritical. Add an option so that people can have the multilib stuff installed works, but forcing everybody to have twice the number of packages installed is a poor answer. Josef -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
