Fedora 9 and VMWare server

[Jarod Wilson]

On Saturday 19 April 2008 02:07:25 am Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Alan wrote:
> >>> yum install libXtst.i386 should do it.
> >>
> >> I didn't have to manually load the 32 bit libraries like that in F8.
> >
> > Yes. The multilib policy has changed and we don't install 32-bit libs on
> > a 64-bit system by default anymore. You can change it in yum.conf by
> > setting multilib_policy=all. The default is best.
>
> What does it hurt to have a library installed that is unused some of the
> time?

Its been discussed at length, but my personal favorite reason: It annoys the 
living crap out of a bunch of people to have all these extra unneeded bits 
installed. If I need/want something 32-bit, I'll install it myself, 
otherwise, I just want the 64-bit bits. Less stuff to yum upgrade if you 
don't have umpteen extra unneeded 32-bit bits laying about. Part of my usual 
dance when installing a 64-bit system in the past has been to immediately yum 
remove all the 32-bit stuff before doing anything else, so I don't have to 
wait for those worthless bits to be upgraded -- time spent calculating the 
upgrade, time spent downloading, time spent installing, etc. (Yes, I'm 
impatient, but for some people, time is money. For others, more bits to 
transfer across the wire is money. And so on.)


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Jarod Wilson
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