Yum better than RPM?

[alan]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Albert A. Modderkolk wrote:

>> If you tell yum to "yum update  ImageMagick" and it has only one
>> architecture of ImageMagick-c++ available, it will give you that warning
>> without telling you which architecture it is failing for.  This is due to
>> the weird quirk that on that platform you can have both 32 bit and 64 bit
>> packages installed at the same time.  (I have an AMD64 laptop.  I see that
>> problem every once in a while.  Especially if the i386 packages get
>> deprecated or never get added to the x86_64 repository.)
>>
>
> Yes, I should have taken a 32-bit system.  64 bits don't bring much in
> performance at this time and lots of problems...  I sometimes dream of
> Firefox showing me a jigsaw piece and telling me to download the latest
> and greatest plug-in... which isn't there for 64-bit systems!

I have considered making an alternate build of Fedora that has 32 bit 
versions of the browser components instead of the usual 64 bit versions. 
There is no technical reason why it would not work. It would solve the 
plug-in issues and it would be "fast enough".

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