On Tuesday 06 March 2007 17:16:50 David Zeuthen wrote:
(Btw, why do we include 32-bit packages nowadays for regular installs
in
the first place? I never was able to figure that out, except for the
fact that OO.o was 32-bit only. As that is no longer the case perhaps
that decision needs to be revisited too.)
I've heard it was for convenience of those wanting to run 32bit 3rd party
binaries, and for those that want to do cross-arch development. However with
things like mock that becomes less of a use case. It is a _little_ odd to
exclude i386 packages when doing x86_64 installs, but not afterward so that
if somebody tried to install a 32bit package, yum would be able to
find/install the 32bit deps.
It gets more interesting when you consider ppc/ppc64 where when you have ppc64
hardware you only want a FEW ppc64 packages but mostly ppc32 packages
installed, so if we made something more convenient for x86_64 we'd have to do
something completely different for ppc64. This just takes more work, and not
work that I have time to do for this release, nor do I imagine the installer
folks have time to do either.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora