Yum better than RPM?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Mar 2 17:00:04 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:47, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> 2006/3/2, Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de <Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de>:
> > > Can you tell the rest of us what we are missing by running
> > > a 32-bit browser or is the difference just indescribable?
> > >

> you are pulling in 32 bit libs which eat up ram...

Oh, so the reason you like 64-bit is that the libs use
less ram? That's the first I've heard that...

> and then again why are you using 64 bit fedora at all if you dont like
> the 64 bit fuss? ;)

Because it still runs all the old stuff unchanged.

> backwards compat is nice but personally i prefer fixes instead of
> workarounds, just a matter of attitude.
> 
> just curious...

You are asking many people to do a lot of work to
build/test/maintain/distribute additional versions.  I'd
just like to know what to expect to see in return for
that extra work.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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