x86_64/i386

[François Patte]

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Matt Domsch a écrit :
| On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 10:39:28PM +0100, Fran?ois Patte wrote:
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|> Bonsoir,
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|> Is it possible to prevent yum to install double version of a package: to
|> night, I wanted to install digikam and yum offered to install both
|> version (x86_64 and i386) and all missing dependencies (x86_64 and i386).
|>
|> I need only one version!
|>
|> Is there some possibility: --exclude=i386
|>
|> Did not find it.
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| yum install yum-basearchonly.x86_64
|
| Future updates will only install x86_64, unless you say
| "package.i386", or what you install has a dependency on an .i386
| package.
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| This type of behavior may become the default in Fedora 9.  It's under
| discussion. There's a new yum in rawhide that provides this feature.

I think that this should *not* be the default unless everything x86_64
and i386 will work in the same way. This is now far from being achieved:
you cannot have all plugins or extensions working in firefox 64bits and
it is better to install i386 versions.

The worse situation is for video (vlc, xine,....) there are a lot of
conflicts between libraries if you install 64bits versions of some
softwares using the same libraries...

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université Paris Descartes
Tél. +33 (0)1 44 55 35 61
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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