Multilib Middle-Ground

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Apr 30 17:04:03 UTC 2008


Warren Togami (wtogami at redhat.com) said: 
> Perhaps we need a third option like "smart" which uses a multilib whitelist 
> that can be updated via repodata.  Anaconda and other GUI interfaces can 
> allow the user to choose between "smart" and "100% i386 free".  This way 
> "yum groupinstall korean-support" can install everything the user expects.

Whitelists are painful due to the fact that packages change names. I'd
prefer something that either works on an algorithmic basis (would still
need occasional updates, but fewer) or package based tagging. (woo, rpm
work.)

Bill




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