Multiarch crazyiness

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Oct 22 14:01:32 UTC 2007


On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:59:25 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:

> Sure, but usually there isn't a point in having *both* 32bit and 64bit
> versions of applications installed (which happens by default though).

Applications get dragged in because the libraries aren't split out into
-libs subpackages.  If they were, then the -devel and -libs packages
would be available multilib, but the application itself wouldn't.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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