On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 22:49 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
I do think it makes sense for yum to install both i386 and x86_64 variants of a package, if both are available, unless specified otherwise. What I don't think makes sense, though, is having /so/ many i386 packages available in the x86_64 tree, and thus also in the installation media.
Having 32-bit libraries makes sense, for the purpose of running legacy closed-source applications. Having i386 -devel packages... does not. What's the point, without a 32-bit compiler to go along?
And then there are the i386 applications: firefox, gaim, etc. These get installed by default (there's no way I can see to exclude i386 packages short of using kickstart). Removing them should be straightforward, right? Just yum --remove glibc.i686. But it's not that simple:
- Often times, removing a 32-bit package also removes the files
shared with the 64-bit sibling. 2. With the default FC6 install, I get a circular dependency when trying to remove glibc.i686. It never displays the final list of affected packages.
Would it be possible, for FC7, to limit the 32-bit packages included in -core to only the 32-bit libraries? Anything that installs to /usr/bin should be excluded. Maybe include a core-i386 repository that is by default disabled, for users who need 32-bit apps.
-- Michel Salim http://salimma.livejournal.com/
Maybe this will be a good time to resurface this thread: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00709.html
- Gilboa