On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:34 +0200, Florian Festi wrote: > 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.
That's nice florian, I hope you realize efforts to rewrite everything from scratch are going to be pretty seriously ignored. I don't want overhaul changes. We have to do this in pieces or it won't be done at all. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
