seth vidal wrote :
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 09:06 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:52:00PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > Matthias, still annoyed at "yum install gdb" trying to pull in almost
an
> > entire "compat" 32bit system... yeah, "yum install
gdb.x86_64" :-p
>
> Someday we'll convince Seth to come around on this. :)
And how do we go about explaining to users on x86_64 machines why they
have to jump through all these hoops to run firefox that'll work with
plugins?
s/plugins/proprietary plugins only available for 32bit x86/
...and the answer could be : Shouldn't we care about as much as how to
install proprietary video drivers or patent encumbered codecs? :-)
Matthias
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