x86-64 rawhide update obnoxiousness

Dan Hollis goemon at anime.net
Tue Oct 11 19:47:47 UTC 2005


On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 October 2005 15:07, Tomas Mraz wrote:
>> The --whatrequires option queries dependencies directly - it doesn't do
>> a recursive search for all the things which the package provides (such
>> as /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and all the kde base libraries).
> Ok. But i still am wondering why kdebase i386 owns  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
> I would think several packages need that and it should be owned by something
> else like setup. But most curious is why the i386 package claims it instead
> of the x86_64 one. This means it drags in kdebase i386 kdelib i386 and arts
> i386 just to create a directory.

One of the more annoying issues for me is when removing a useless/unneeded 
i386 package tears out parts of the x86_64 package with no warning 
whatsoever.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119372

-Dan




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