Multilib in FC7? Disable by default?
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon Aug 21 17:45:11 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 12:34 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 21 August 2006 11:12, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> > Is it really duplicating all packages for you? From what I see, the x86_64
> > install DVDs are just a little larger than the i386 ones, so...
>
> There are 688 i386 packages in the x86_64 repo. Add to that 1 i586 and 5 i686
> packages. That's a lot of packages. On a default x86_64 install into Xen, I
> have 356 i386 packages installed. 356 is a lot of packages to send down the
> wire, unpack, layout on the file system, set selinux stuff, and do whatever
> pre/post processing necessary. Whats worse, a yum remove \*.i\?86 seems to
> want to take with it a fair number of x86_64 packages, which is not desired.
>
really? What x86_64 packages does it take and why?
-sv
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