firefox.i386 in x86_64 repo

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Jul 31 15:23:38 UTC 2006


On Monday 31 July 2006 11:04, Demond wrote:
> Is there a reason the firefox.i386 and firefox-devel.i386 packages are
> in the x86_64 repo for rawhide?  They both got pulled into my system
> when  the firefox-devel package was introduced.  However, "yum remove
> firefox.i386" shows that there are no dependencies.  I was just
> wondering if this was deliberate and if they will be around for a while.

Every package that has a -devel subpackage is considered multilib, thus it is 
made available and all its deps are made available in multilib platforms.  
There are very few exceptions, such as the kernel, to this rule.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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