On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, David Nielsen wrote:
man, 22 01 2007 kl. 16:20 -0500, skrev Jesse Keating:
On Monday 22 January 2007 16:09, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
Can anybody tell me why it wants to pull in the i386 version of
gutenprint to replace the x86_64 version of gimp-print-utils? Is there
any way to convince it not to do things like that?
By default, if you ask yum to install <package> and <package>.i386 +
<package>.x86_64 are available, you'll get them both. (same for other
arches, like ppc/ppc64) This is so that multilib Just Works and you don't
have to think about it. Those that DO think about it and concienciously
decide to NOT use that feature of their processor can add "exclude=*.i?86"
to /etc/yum.conf, as well as yum remove \*.i?86.
I seem to remember mentions that this specific solution to the multilib
disaster would cause problems by removing needed packages. Any truth to
that?
For anyone using anything linked as 32bit, yes.
A while back I tried removing the 32bit stuff and was left with a
non-working system. I am not certain what is linked against the 32bit
libraries in the default distribution. (I can check my laptop, but that
is at home.) OpenOffice used to be 32bit only, but I believe they fixed
that. Things like Acroread and similar binary only will need the
libraries, as well. (People tend to use more than just the things
installed with the distro.)
At some point, I will have to do a check of what uses the 32bit libraries
on a 64-bit install. Hopefully not much, but you never know...
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