comps discussion at fudcon and the future

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 16 18:12:29 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 11:59 -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> Ah. Yes, this is a good thing. No one should ever have i*86 libraries 
> installed on an x86_64 system unless they have specifically asked for 
> them. :-) (I count 'installing something with i*86 dependencies as 
> "specifically asking".)

In fedora 9 we switched yum from being: default to installing both to
default to installing the 'best' arch (which is not always 64bit on all
processors).

-sv





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