FC6 - Stock x86_64 stock install, installs about 158 i386/686 rpm's

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 22:17, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> One use case where you definitely DON'T want i386 multilibs is an x86_64
> QEMU VM running on an i386 machine. If you want to build 32-bit packages,
> you're going to do it on your real hardware, not an emulated machine. And
> installing in QEMU is slow, so useless packages being pulled in is a PITA.

And crippling the OS for a very corner case is also a PITA.  Personally I'm 
all for an anaconda flag or super sekret option that allows you to add some 
yum defines, such as exclude=*.i?86.  But I'm not for adding a graphical or 
even textual option box asking a user if they want this.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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