Jesse Keating (jkeating(a)redhat.com) said:
Applications get dragged in because the libraries aren't split
out into
-libs subpackages. If they were, then the -devel and -libs packages
would be available multilib, but the application itself wouldn't.
One *big* issue with doing this change across the board is that you'll go
from the repository having:
- foo.i386 and foo.x86_64
to:
- foo.x86_64 and foo-libs.i386 and foo-libs.x86_64
So, on upgrade, yum will grab foo.x86_64 to upgrade the older install. It
will then pull in foo-libs.x86_64 for dependencies. Meanwhile, the old
foo.i386 will remain, often leading to conflicts.
Bill