F9beta update takes forever

[John Summerfield]

Will Woods wrote:
> 
> On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:41 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> ??
>> While running a new update to try to reproduce the problem, I see it's 
>> installing lots of unwanted 386 packages. This leads to the question, 
>> why did yum-basearchonly get removed?
> 
> If memory serves, it's been obsoleted by the multilib_policy feature in 
> yum. It defaults to 'best', so 'yum install PKG' already does what you 
> want it to - only installs PKG.x86_64, not PKG.i386.
> 
> See here: 
> http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/long-wanted-feature-added-to-yum/
> also: 
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg00168.html 
Thanks Will.
According to the second, it defaults to "all" which I think means 
"worst" or "bloated":-)

Now, if someone could _document_ it. In the package, not some place in 
the longlostweb..



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