On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Seth Vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Braden McDaniel wrote:
>> But why does yum assume that a dependency of an x86_64 package can be
>> satisfied by an i586 one?
>
> Why not?
>
> If something requires FOO and something else provides FOO - what difference
> does it make if it is from another arch as long as the arch is compatible
> with the system?
That only works if FOO is an executable and not a library, no?
libraries that are auto-prov'd - will get arch-specifc on their own.
-sv