man, 22 01 2007 kl. 16:20 -0500, skrev Jesse Keating: > On Monday 22 January 2007 16:09, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > Can anybody tell me why it wants to pull in the i386 version of > > gutenprint to replace the x86_64 version of gimp-print-utils? Is there > > any way to convince it not to do things like that? > > By default, if you ask yum to install <package> and <package>.i386 + > <package>.x86_64 are available, you'll get them both. (same for other > arches, like ppc/ppc64) This is so that multilib Just Works and you don't > have to think about it. Those that DO think about it and concienciously > decide to NOT use that feature of their processor can add "exclude=*.i?86" > to /etc/yum.conf, as well as yum remove \*.i?86. I seem to remember mentions that this specific solution to the multilib disaster would cause problems by removing needed packages. Any truth to that? - David -- "Ridicule is the only weapon that can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them.” -Thomas Jefferson
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