Firefox Plugin Problems Redux

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

fre, 22.04.2005 kl. 06.02 skrev Michal Jaegermann:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:24:27PM +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > 
> > Would it be possible to put something like "firefox-32bit" in core or
> > extras?
> 
> How this would differ from the one which is already in i386
> directory?
> 
> > Many people depend on having those aviable, whether you like it
> > or not...
> 
> There is really nothing which would stop you from installing
> firefox.i386 on an x86_64 installation.  'yum' will do that for you
> gladly.  Just point it to a repository with required packages and
> fire away.  There is likely no point then to have installed
> firefox.x86_64 too and may even clash (a script /usr/bin/firefox
> should not try to point to both sets of libraries at once :-).  The
> same goes for mozilla.

But what will happen when there is a new version of firefox out? Won't
yum then decide that 64-bit is best, and install that?

That sounds like some kind of hell...

Kyrre