[Fedora-livecd-list] Re: patch review and move of livecd scm

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 19:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 March 2007 00:05:57 David Zeuthen wrote:
> >> If I'm on a 64-bit system without any 32-bit packages, I'd expect our
> >> package management software to pull in the 32-bit deps if I decide to
> >> install a 32-bit app. Isn't that how Pirut works today anyway?
> > 
> > Perhaps you missed the part about:
> > 
> >> Because like it or not, people run a lot of software that's not packaged
> >> as an RPM.
> 
> This is not the group we should serving by default. We dont serve the 
> end users who dont use RPM packages very well anyway. From the number of 
> complaints we have got on this topic, I would think the default should 
> be to just install x86_64 packages.

Funny.  We used to do that.  I got more complaints.

There's no way to win on this one.  I'd far rather the downside be "use
space, but things work" than the alternative where people try to use
foo, see it not work and say "Fedora sucks, screw it, I'm going to run
something else".

Jeremy