On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 18:40 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > I must've been out of town, recently, but I thought that Fedora was supposed > to be a distribution based solely on free and open source software. The fact that it only includes open source does not mean it should limit you to only running open source products, or even that it should force you to recompile everything. > So I > really don't understand WTF anyone needs the i686 crap for. If I want to > install any FOSS software I get it, build it, and install it. Naturally, it > gets built as native 64bit code. So what do I need the 32bit code for, > again? The free, but not open source VMware server or players would be a good example of something you might like to run that would require 32bit libraries. Unless your religion specifically prohibits it... > Now, my recollection was that, in the past, the Fedora folks were quite > insistent that the Fedora project is not going to expend any significant > effort to support or maintain proprietary closed-source code. Backwards compatibility is always nice. You can still run the binaries you had on your last 32 bit machine. > And that, I suspect is the real reason Anaconda foisted on me all that crap > I spent nearly a whole day carefully removing. I blew away nearly two > hundred 32bit packages, roughly. That doesn't sound right. You should mostly just have 32 bit libraries. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
