On Thursday 12 April 2007 15:09:47 Matthias Saou wrote: > I did the latter, but IIRC it is preventing me from installing some > apps that are only available in 64bit and require the gecko engine > which still hasn't been split out. And it won't either. Mozilla decided that they don't want gecko to be a platform. > Anyway, in the end my vote would be to change yum's behaviour from > "install all available archs of the latest version" to "install best > available arch of the latest version" when no arch is specified, and > not have anaconda install any compat 32bit packages by default. > > As a side note, this is something I have always found quite annoying > too : Any explicit package requirement from within a package also > "triggers" the installation of all available archs (which is actually > coherent with the current behavior, but annoying nevertheless). > Example : If your package explicitly "Requires: curl" although it only > really requires libcurl.so.3, which rpm also added automatically, > you'll end up with curl.i386 and dragging in all of its dependencies. > Without the explicit requirement, only curl.x86_64 would have been > necessary. Those are packaging bugs regardless of how yum / rpm handle them. Explicit Requires should be avoided if the rpm will pick up library requirements on its own. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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