On Friday, 24 February 2012 13:09:45 Pierre Jarillon wrote: > I have just installed Mga2b1 x86_64 and it is already a great distro. But > once more, I was annoyed with an unuseful bunch of rpm in rpmdrake which > make the list less readable.
Then rpmdrake shouldn't be showing libraries by default. > For a beginner, this is more annoying. > > So, I have unselected Core 32 bit and everything seams to be ok. As pcpa > said in "[Cooker] Multilib next steps?", the only reason to run in 32 bit > mode is legacy binaries that cannot be rebuilt. Or to run wine on x86_64. Or to run other proprietary applications/libraries provided by vendors (not necessarily apps we have in non-free). IMHO, Mandriva is going backwards in this regard. $ rpm -qa --qf '%{ARCH} %{NAME}\n'|grep -Ev '(^x86_64|noarch|i586 lib| \(none\))' i586 wine32 i586 opera i586 googleearth i586 playonlinux i386 teamviewer6 i586 skype i586 acroread i586 wine i386 oracle-xe i586 python-psyco i586 wine-gecko i386 ICAClient > IMO, the last useful binary was flashplugin, now the adobe 64bit binary > works fine. Is it still useful to keep this outgrowth alive? Provide good, in-distro documentation on how to resolve 32-bit dependencies, or IMHO removing the 32bit repos is a regression. We are a *very* long way from adequate documentation. Regards, Buchan