Fedora Core 3

Tue Jul 20 04:29:36 UTC 2004

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:17, Paul Jakma <paul at dishone.st> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Is it specified somewhere or is it you opinion?
>
> My opinion, given that there is a huge body of existing RPMs out
> there for i386 and they're unlikely to be going away, and i'd like to
> be able to install them without fear of overwriting x86_64 binaries.

Why would you want to have both i386 and AMD64 binaries installed at the same 
time?

Surely if you have a 64bit version of a program then the correct thing to do 
is just not install the 32bit version!

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