Why has yum behavior changed in F9?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sun Jun 1 22:22:25 UTC 2008


Rex Dieter wrote:

> Paolo Galtieri wrote:
> 
>> Today I installed F9 on an x86_64 laptop which previously was running F8
>> and so far I find F9 to be a regression from F8. In F8 when I ran:
>> 
>>   yum -y install gtk2
>> 
>> it would install both the i386 version and the x86_64 version of the
>> package. In F9 it only installs the x86_64 version, I have to explicitly
>> install the i386 version. Why the regression?
> 
> Not regression, change of default behavior.  Many, many folks disliked
> that.

Came out sounding wrong, let's try again: many folks disliked the F8
behavior of multilib by default.

-- Rex





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