Fedora Core 3

[Paul Jakma]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> Does anything actually stop you removing the x86-64 mozilla and 
> installing the x86-32 one with FC2. I've not tried this but can't 
> see any obvious reason to fail

You'll need to install many iX86 RPMs, mostly for libs obviously, 
many of which overwrite files belonging to the x86_64 versions of 
those RPMs. Mostly documentation and headers admittedly, not a big 
deal, but some binaries too, which is annoying. (eg 
/usr/sbin/iconvconfig in glibc RPM).

Why on earth weren't /(usr)?/bin64 directories created for the FC2 
x86_64 port for x86_64 binaries to be installed to? ;) PATH is far 
easier to manipulate than all those preexisting RPMs. (hindsight 
20/20 possibly).

regards,
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