On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:52 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:19:41AM -0400, seth vidal 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?
yum install firefox.i386 ?
With the default being to match "bestarch" if none is given.
Okay, what am I missing? :)
FWIW, I'm still not sure why we don't do this:
x86_64 repo (with all x86_64 packages and firefox.i386 and deps as ONLY
i386 packages)
i386 repo (with all i386 packages)
x86_64 installs include yum config for i386 repo, but it is disabled by
default. You want multilib, enable the i386 repo.
I doubt that we have any statistics on people willingly using multilib,
but I know I got it on my x86_64 machine and I sure as hell didn't want
it for anything besides firefox.
~spot