On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 22:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 19:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Surely this is a bug, not something that every single specfile must > >> work around. > > > Well, if it's a bug then the entire multilib approach is a bug ;) > > I think that's widely agreed ;-). Multilib is a crock that is meant > to sort of work for some common cases. The cases that Braden seems > to be worried about, like version skew between different installed > arches of the same package, are not something multilib was ever > expected to be able to handle gracefully. Actually, what I'm worried about is, "yum pulls in a bunch of i686 packages as dependencies that won't work when (for some reason) it can't find the x86_64 ones that it really needs". I don't think that's acceptable behavior. -- Braden McDaniel <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
