On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:27:43 +0000 (UTC)
Petr Pisar <ppisar(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 2013-03-29, seth vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>
>> What's Architecture good for? To allow multilib. To install more
>> instances of the same version. And yum ignores Architecture on
>> purpose. But don't tell anybody that. Otherwise he could not claim
>> we do not implement parallel installation.
>
> Yum ignores arch? Since when?
>
> Maybe you're using the word 'ignores' in a way I'm not familiar
> with.
Yes, I used it a little metaphorically.
I don't think you're using 'metaphorically' correctly here.
Yum doesn't ignore arch and I think you should stop saying that, no
matter what sense of the word 'ignores' you think you're using.
> > yum install foo.i386 does exactly what you think it does.
>
> yum install foo installs the bestarch is can find for that pkgname.
>
That's exactly the goal. Yum _understands_ architecture. It allows you
to install, upgrade, remove architecteruces independetly, yet it allow
to substistute one with another one to meet dependencies.
Misusing names does not allow all of that.
misusing? Is this, again, another metaphor? Please speak plainly. What
do you mean here? Where is the misuse?
-sv