Re: Multilib Middle-Ground

[seth vidal <skvidal fedoraproject org>]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 14:18 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 02:04:07PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > As Bill said - the whitelist is just pain to maintain. So, if we want
> > something like this then we make it a tag at the rpm level. Heck, you
> > can have it be a rather innocuous provides that we could hack into yum
> > to look for:
> > 
> > Provides: look-for-i386-too
> 
> The i386 Gtk IM plugins wouldn't be used if gtk2.i386 isn't installed,
> right?  Similarly PAM i386 modules aren't needed when pam.i386 isn't
> installed and NSS i386 modules when glibc.i[36]86 isn't installed.
> In that case it would be best if this kind of dependency was somehow encoded
> in the packages, rather than just forcing installation of unneeded i386
> packages.

You'll note the default behavior in F9 is not install any i386 pkgs
unless explicitly asked for (or as a dependency).

If you want to have dependencies have arch-specific information in them
then, again, we need to talk about that at the rpm layer.

-sv