seth vidal wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 17:09 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
James Antill wrote:
...but while x86_64 is the common platform with multiarch, there are
others, and it'd be good if the plugin did the right thing.
The right thing would be to finally fix the multilib behavior of yum... And
I'd guess that the "update" cases are even more interesting/anoying.
the multilib behavior of yum works correctly, for what it was intended
to do. Also the decisions about multilib and the installation isn't
really just yum's decision. It has to be addressed with the various
distributions in mind, too.
Yes, multilib (not necessarily restricted to yum) works "as intended". It is
alway a bit fishy to conclude from the result to the intention but I always
have the feeling that the intention was to incorporate multilib with as few
changes as ever possible and to hope it would be obsolete before anyone
complains too much. While the first was done very successfully the second
still doesn't seam to work that well.
To come back to yum: I agree that it is not only yum's decision what
packages to install. But it's yum's purpose to work well with the decisions
about packages made elsewhere. This includes keeping the installed arch and
keeping 32 and 64 bit packages off the disk if they are not wanted. Yes,
this requires that more or less every decision within yum has to take arch
into account and it means that the yum depsolver needs to be more or less
rewritten from scratch.
And so we are still here with yum working as intended and discussing
basearchonly plugins that won't be able to fix the underlaying problems.
Florian
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