[Fedora-packaging] Re: -devel arch dependencies

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Apr 12 14:52:42 UTC 2007


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? :)





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