Dependencies a little excessive?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Aug 10 15:51:37 UTC 2006


Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> said:
> it is when we want to provide a multilib environment when folks shouldn't have 
> to think about it.  Our users should have to jump through hoops when they 
> want to run some 32bit app.

If someone installs a 32bit app via yum, it would automatically pull in
the necessary dependencies (wouldn't it?).  If someone is installing
non-RPM software without yum, they'll have to be doing things manually
anyway (and could specify the arch).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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