Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 7:22 PM Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Not really. It would break the legacy "install all packages as multilib
>> if available" mode, which has not been the default modus operandi of YUM
>> for years now. Does DNF even support this mode? (That mode would break
>> because the depsolver would attempt multilibbing all packages including
>> ones which are not intended to be multilib and hence contain multilib
>> conflicts.) But the default "install only the multilibs that are actually
>> required by some 32-bit-only package" mode should work just fine with
>> that setup (and IMHO, that is the only multilib mode that makes sense
>> anyway).
>
> This is definitely supported, as this is how multilib works on Mageia
> and OpenMandriva today, both of which use DNF too.
But that doesn't mean Fedora has to continue supporting the broken mode. ;-)
Why would you want to install all libraries as multilib even if nothing 32-
bit uses them? It's just a huge waste of bandwidth and disk space.
Kevin Kofler
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