On Apr 28, 2008, at 4:08, John Summerfield <debian(a)herakles.homelinux.org
Will Woods wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:41 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
>> ??
>> While running a new update to try to reproduce the problem, I see
>> it's installing lots of unwanted 386 packages. This leads to the
>> question, why did yum-basearchonly get removed?
> If memory serves, it's been obsoleted by the multilib_policy
> feature in yum. It defaults to 'best', so 'yum install PKG' already
> does what you want it to - only installs PKG.x86_64, not PKG.i386.
> See here:
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/long-wanted-feature-added-to-yum/
> also:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-February/msg00168.html
Thanks Will.
According to the second, it defaults to "all" which I think means
"worst" or "bloated":-)
Now, if someone could _document_ it. In the package, not some place
in the longlostweb..
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Fedora configs default to best. I could have sworn that this was
documented in the yum or yum.conf man pages.
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