xulrunner-1.9.1.1-1.fc11.x86_64 update pulls in i586 packages
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 23 18:50:32 UTC 2009
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Braden McDaniel wrote:
>>> But why does yum assume that a dependency of an x86_64 package can be
>>> satisfied by an i586 one?
>>
>> Why not?
>>
>> If something requires FOO and something else provides FOO - what difference
>> does it make if it is from another arch as long as the arch is compatible
>> with the system?
>
> That only works if FOO is an executable and not a library, no?
libraries that are auto-prov'd - will get arch-specifc on their own.
-sv
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