yum pulling in 386 packages

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sunday 23 September 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 07:15 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Yum is doing what Fedora has asked for a multilib strategy all the way
> > up to Fedora 8.
>
> That strategy is, quite simply, wrong. In all other cases we call an
> implementation of such a misguided strategy a 'bug'.

I tend to agree.  Is the strategy documented somewhere so one can educate 
oneself and verify that this indeed is the desired behaviour that follows 
from it?  I'm having hard time coming up with any arguments that would 
support the way things currently work, but would be interested in finding out 
if I've missed something.