Spilt libperl from perl

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Mon Apr 23 20:42:29 UTC 2007


On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:45:41 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> This solves the problem for now, and we already are planning to change
> multilib for F8.
> 
> Changing multlib for Fedora 7:
> 1) isn't on the feature list
> 2) would slip the release (due to the necessity to fix broken upgrades)
> 3) is after the feature freeze
> 
> 
> .. all for a whopping 6 packages in Extras that need tweaked in some way?

wrt 2) why?  Apparently, removing perl.i386 in Core has not broken
any package in Core. And the few in Extras 7 have been put onto the
multi-lib blacklist. Since Extras 6 does not contain any multilib
packages except for "wine" and its deps, there is no broken
upgrade path. Or where is it?




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