Dependencies a little excessive?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 20:53 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote :
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:12:05PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > > yum install libgnome\*
> > > > > and guesses if the user meant: install libgnome*.x86_64 or
> > > > >                                install libgnome.*(all archs)
> > > > > send it to me, I'm amenable to that sort of thing.
> > > > Can we just define and document it as being the former?
> > > And what if they thought .* was a regexp and not globbing? :)
> > 
> > No problem! This issue is already documented!
> 
> Yup.
> 
> I was just saying that I didn't like that "feature", not that I knew
> better nor knew how to properly fix it.
> 
> I better not say that I don't like multilib, then, right? :-)
> 

I have strong, negative feelings toward multilib myself but I understand
why it is there and needs to be there, sadly.


-sv