[RFC] unified i386/x86_64 install media.

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Wed Nov 25 14:04:12 UTC 2009


Once upon a time, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at pobox.com> said:
> On 11/25/2009 01:32 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >Look closer. It is only a small subset of the i686 content in the x86_64
> >repo for multilib purposes.
> 
> That's merely a space issue, not any failure to or absence of "mash"

No, it isn't just an issue of space.  You don't want to present all of
the i386 repo to x86_64 installs, as a lot of the packages would result
in conflicts.  Only a subset of i686 packages can coexist with x86_64
packages.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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