feedback: fc5 and fc6t3 x86_64

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Oct 19 08:27:43 UTC 2006


On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:00:37PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 19:28, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> > Should this be included by default for x86_64 ?
> > user joe won't figure it out like this.
> 
> Absolutely not.  An end user's multilib capable machine + OS should install 
> the multilib software by default.  An end user shouldn't have to figure out 
> how to add it after the fact.  It should Just Work(tm) for the user.  There 
> should be no problem with the x86_64 and i386 packages being installed.  If 
> there are, like multilib file conflicts, we fix them.

Is it true for Extras? I haven't seen anything like a push for multilib
in extras, for example there is nothing in the guidelines, nor something 
reporting the conflicts. Did I miss something?

--
Pat




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