Good point, Russ, but presumes that legitimate executables will only be under the purview of RPM. That may be the preferred policy, but is not universal. (And questionable if it really agrees with Unix philosophy, but we're drifting into theory ... history ... opinion.) So if a (legitimate) program requiring 32-bit support suddenly appears (outside registration with the Department of Homeland RPMs) what will it do since you have removed the 32-bit libs??
Clean is good. (get rid of unused libraries) Inventory is good. (track it all with RPM ... or something!) I'm only saying that YMMV. -- R; <>< Rick Troth Velocity Software http://www.velocitysoftware.com/ On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:14, R P Herrold <herr...@owlriver.com> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Richard Troth wrote: > >> In the case of libraries, it is normal to have both architectures >> installed. Desirable even. So ... again ... check what is supplied, >> and if they are libs, don't sweat it. > > Not sure about 'Desirable' actually. If a file is not needed, > or useful, it has no business clogging up a filesystem and > dynamic linker search path (slowing the machine carrying > around the non-used parasite) > > I have removed the non s390x 'multi-lib' packages, under the > guidance of rpm, which 'knows' from its use of ldd, and other > tools, which are 'safe' to remove, with no ill effects > > -- Russ herrold > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
