>From my searching, most of these have been discussed before (several times)
or have had various bugzillas I think, but I was just wondering if someone
could sum up any overall action to clean up the situation.
1. "yum install foo" installs both foo.i386 and foo.x86_64. I know this
has been hashed out before and declared "not a bug", but does anyone
actually like the way this is working? Yes, there is a good reason for
it but the common case on x86_64 seems to be a misfeature.
2. If yum updates some package that has a *new* dependency that the old
version did not have, yum will install both arch versions of the
depended-upon package (see above). When that happens with just one lib,
it can by chain-reaction drag in about half of a whole i386 package
set. Whee. neato.
3. If you have 2 arches of a package installed, and you "rpm -e" the i386
version, any shared files (docs, etc) get removed. Makes it hard to
clean up from either of the above 2.
Surely there has to be a better way, I don't want two versions of every
darn thing installed on my machine, it is a waste. Has someone looked into
fixing #3 so we can clean up things? Is there a plan in the works?
Thanks,
-Edwin
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