On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:01 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:59:25 +0200
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Sure, but usually there isn't a point in having *both* 32bit and 64bit
> versions of applications installed (which happens by default though).
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.
Right. And here again is one of the major problems. We know what the
problem is, and Fedora has a record of being able to push through
changes once a problem is identified and time thrown at it - why can't
there just be a cut-off date/release by which most of the packages must
have been split out? Then multilib *hacks* can be thrown away.
Jon.