yum pulling in 386 packages

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Sep 24 16:11:16 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 18:08 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> no if someone wants a pure 64 bit system he should have a option to do 
> that. multilib is not a bad thing but it just lets you install and run 
> 32bit apps on your 64bit system.
> please don't go down to no multilib and start using chroot hacks...

I don't think anybody is suggesting that we ditch multilib altogether.
We are suggesting only that the i386 packages should not be installed by
_default_ -- they should be installed only when they're actually needed.

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dwmw2




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