FC6 - Stock x86_64 stock install, installs about 158 i386/686 rpm's

[Hans de Goede]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 22:34 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Thursday 26 October 2006 22:26, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> By that logic, package selection shouldn't be allowed either and the
>>> installer should just install everything. Users are allowed to deselect
>>> what they don't need, why shouldn't this include 32-bit multilibs? Let's
>>> face it, there are users who _don't_ need or want them.
>> And those users that actually care can remove them easily enough.
>>
> 
> Yeah, but you are asking us to install literally hundreds of packages
> and MB we don't need and then spend hours removing them.
> 
> If the price of solving this problem is one check box or one "additional
> yum parameters" text box - why not do it?
> 

Suggestion, maybe make this an anacondo install paramater which can be
passed through syslinux then sufficiently advanced users can get an
x86_64 only system and normal users are not confused by a checkbox?

Regards,

Hans