Re: Where to find 'official' multilibs rpm howto/introduction? and elf32/elf64?

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:35 AM, seth vidal wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 07:01 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:39:14AM -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > > Installing both arches is asking for a great deal of trouble with
> > > very little gain.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the default Fedora and RHEL configuration do the  
> > asking. (And
> > yum installs all archs by default.)
>
> you can choose an arch, though.
>
> specifying arches in yum is supported and if you really don't want the
> other arch add excludes int your yum.conf.
>
> works just fine.

So why isn't a single arch, with appropriate excludes, the default  
configuration for yum?

Executables for a single arch is most certainly what the majority of  
end-users need.

73 de Jeff