yum, x86_64 and i386: the never ending story
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Dec 12 00:51:56 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 01:31 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> sorry that I bring up this topic once again: why does yum install i386
> packages on a x86_64 system during groupinstall?
>
> # yum groupinstall XFCE
> ...
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> =============================================================================
> Package Arch Version Repository Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
> Thunar i386 0.8.0-3.fc8 fedora 5.2 M
> xfce-mcs-plugins x86_64 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 593 k
> xfce-utils x86_64 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 346 k
> xfce4-appfinder x86_64 4.4.1-2.fc8 fedora 264 k
> xfce4-mailwatch-plugin x86_64 1.0.1-7.fc8 fedora 365 k
> xfce4-mixer x86_64 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 216 k
> xfce4-session-engines x86_64 4.4.1-2.fc8 fedora 325 k
> xfprint i386 4.4.1-2.fc8 fedora 584 k
> xfprint x86_64 4.4.1-2.fc8 fedora 587 k
> Installing for dependencies:
> Terminal x86_64 0.2.6-3.fc8 fedora 1.2 M
> Thunar x86_64 0.8.0-3.fc8 fedora 5.2 M
> exo i386 0.3.2-3.fc8 fedora 679 k
> exo x86_64 0.3.2-3.fc8 fedora 681 k
> libxfce4mcs i386 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 46 k
> libxfce4mcs x86_64 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 48 k
> libxfce4util x86_64 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 74 k
> libxfce4util i386 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 73 k
> libxfcegui4 x86_64 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 278 k
> libxfcegui4 i386 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 277 k
> mousepad x86_64 0.2.12-3.fc8 fedora 89 k
> xfce-mcs-manager x86_64 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 382 k
> xfce4-panel i386 4.4.1-4.fc8 fedora 530 k
> xfce4-panel x86_64 4.4.1-4.fc8 fedora 535 k
> xfce4-session i386 4.4.1-2.fc8 fedora 509 k
> xfce4-session x86_64 4.4.1-2.fc8 fedora 510 k
> xfdesktop x86_64 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 2.7 M
> xfwm4 x86_64 4.4.1-3.fc8 fedora 1.3 M
>
> To me this looks like xfprint.i386 and Thunar.i386 are installed by
> accident and then pull in the all the rest. Can anybody explain this to
> me?
>
> I don't think that this behavior is desired by 99 % of the users.
I'm pretty sure that that statistic is made up.
it's something we'll be working on as a result of the multilib
discussion we had early in the beginning of the f9 cycle.
-sv
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