More and more yum dependency problems

[Tony Nelson]

At 7:58 AM +0100 8/4/05, Paul Howarth wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 12:36 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
 ...
>> In such cases, a more explicit error message would be very helpful.
>> Something like "Multi-lib support conflict (.i386 package <foo-version1>
>> vs. .x86_64 package <foor-version2>):", followed by the conflicts.
>
>I suspect that this error message comes directly from rpm rather than
>from yum. Although it's quite easy to diagnose this issue once you've
>seen it a few times, I think it could be made much more obvious simply
>by adding the arch information where the conflicting packages are of
>different architectures:
>
>file /usr/bin/mozilla from install of mozilla-1.7.10-1.5.1.x86_64
>conflicts with file from package mozilla-1.7.8-2.i386
>
>Worth a bugzilla RFE perhaps?

Probably.  Would it be appropriate for me to submit a request for a feature
I have no present need for?  (Sure, someday I'll need it, when I buy an x64
system.)
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