lm_sensors in FC4-updates for x86_64 twice?

Willem Riede wrrhdev at riede.org
Sun Nov 27 13:24:41 UTC 2005


On 11/27/2005 06:38:28 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 05:33:16PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 22:53 +0100, Florian La Roche wrote:
> > > > no, I don't want to hear any bitching and moaning about this, that's
> how
> > > > it is.
> > >
> > > At some point we should change this to only pull in as few packages as
> > > really needed, but that also comes with quite some calculation cost.
> >
> > why isn't the way it's currently being done correct? We've gone round
> > and round on this and its always come down to how to handle globs of
> > commands.
> 
> Sometimes less is more. Why should a system be polluted with i386
> packages, if the user does not need them?

Indeed. But that should be considered by the repo creator. If there is no need  
for a i386 variant of package X then X.i386 should not be in the x86_64 repo.

Regards, Willem Riede.




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