On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 12:06 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:02 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > With the help of Tim and James A. I have a patch which lets the user > > select what will happen when they are on a multilib arch and they do an: > > install foo or install foo* as to which archs it will install by > > default. > > I still think that from a user interaction point of view, this is > awful :-/ But not sure what to do about that.
You've said this for years now but other than that one user all I've ever heard is screaming and gnashing of teeth. I'm inclined for Fedora9 to have 'best' be the default and see if we encounter MORE or LESS pain explaining stuff to users. > > > the config parameter is multilib_policy and it's options are best and > > all. > > I think that "one" is a better descriptor than best -- best implies a > goodness which may or may not be true :-) best arch is what it means. And we already define the 'best' arch for each platform anyway. So it is not a value judgment we have not already made -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
