FC6 - Stock x86_64 stock install, installs about 158 i386/686 rpm's
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Nov 2 03:17:09 UTC 2006
Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:
> Because to the end user, what does that mean? More options and questions and
> buttons suck more. Things need to work out of the box, and people can
> cripple them after the fact. Yes, cripple. You've got hardware that is
> capable of running both x86_64 and i386 (or ppc64 and ppc). Crippling the OS
> to not support it is something we should _not_ do.
One use case where you definitely DON'T want i386 multilibs is an x86_64 QEMU
VM running on an i386 machine. If you want to build 32-bit packages, you're
going to do it on your real hardware, not an emulated machine. And installing
in QEMU is slow, so useless packages being pulled in is a PITA.
Kevin Kofler
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