Re: firefox.i386 in x86_64 repo

[Andrew Haley <aph redhat com>]

Nicolas Mailhot writes:
 > Le lundi 31 juillet 2006 à 11:11 -0400, Matthew Miller a écrit :
 > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:04:16AM -0400, Demond wrote:
 > > > Is there a reason the firefox.i386 and firefox-devel.i386 packages are 
 > > > in the x86_64 repo for rawhide?  They both got pulled into my system 
 > > > when  the firefox-devel package was introduced.  However, "yum remove 
 > > > firefox.i386" shows that there are no dependencies.  I was just 
 > > > wondering if this was deliberate and if they will be around for a while.
 > > 
 > > It's handy if you have to use the flash plugin....
 > 
 > Except x86_64 OO.o will require x86_64 firefox, which will stomp on the
 > i386 one, and kill flash.

Surely this is a bug in yum.  OK, we should get stuff multilibbed so
you can install -32 if you really want, but yum always installing both
libs is a PITA.

Andrew.