F9beta update takes forever

[Jesse Keating]

On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:08, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org 
 > wrote:

> Will Woods wrote:
>> On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:41 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
>>> ??
>>> While running a new update to try to reproduce the problem, I see  
>>> it's installing lots of unwanted 386 packages. This leads to the  
>>> question, why did yum-basearchonly get removed?
>> If memory serves, it's been obsoleted by the multilib_policy  
>> feature in yum. It defaults to 'best', so 'yum install PKG' already  
>> does what you want it to - only installs PKG.x86_64, not PKG.i386.
>> See here: http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/long-wanted-feature-added-to-yum/
>> also: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg00168.html
> Thanks Will.
> According to the second, it defaults to "all" which I think means  
> "worst" or "bloated":-)
>
> Now, if someone could _document_ it. In the package, not some place  
> in the longlostweb..
>
>
>
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> Cheers
> John
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Fedora configs default to best. I could have sworn that this was  
documented in the yum or yum.conf man pages.

--jes