F7 repo contains the packages that its install dvd has not. Why?

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Thu Oct 25 16:55:40 UTC 2007


Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 22:51 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
>> A surprisingly small amount of this appears to be duplication of
>> 32-bit libraries and applications, [...]
> 
> I meant to say "surprisingly large" there. That's slightly more than
> half of the entire 32-bit repository duplicated into the x86_64
> tree.  Wow. T_T

Yeah, that's a nice bit of bloat, just so people can run proprietary
plugins and other software. :)

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