xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages

[Braden McDaniel]

On 7/23/09 2:50 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
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>> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Braden McDaniel wrote:
>>>> But why does yum assume that a dependency of an x86_64 package can be
>>>> satisfied by an i586 one?
>>>
>>> Why not?
>>>
>>> If something requires FOO and something else provides FOO - what
>>> difference does it make if it is from another arch as long as the
>>> arch is compatible with the system?
>>
>> That only works if FOO is an executable and not a library, no?
>
> libraries that are auto-prov'd - will get arch-specifc on their own.

Which isn't the case for gecko-libs; or for anything that's getting 
dlopen'd.  The packaging guidelines probably need to raise the 
visibility of this issue.

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