[Fedora-packaging] Re: -devel arch dependencies

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Apr 12 13:31:11 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 15:24 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> seth vidal wrote :
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 09:06 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:52:00PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > > > Matthias, still annoyed at "yum install gdb" trying to pull in almost an
> > > > entire "compat" 32bit system... yeah, "yum install gdb.x86_64" :-p
> > > 
> > > Someday we'll convince Seth to come around on this. :)
> > 
> > And how do we go about explaining to users on x86_64 machines why they
> > have to jump through all these hoops to run firefox that'll work with
> > plugins?
> 
> s/plugins/proprietary plugins only available for 32bit x86/
> 
> ...and the answer could be : Shouldn't we care about as much as how to
> install proprietary video drivers or patent encumbered codecs? :-)

okie doke. I can understand that. If you don't want multilib pkgs
installed then that's do-able. But I'm not the person to convince of it
and I don't think it comes back to me to decide this for the
distribution.

-sv





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