On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> as long as you require only a few 32-bit packages, requesting them
>> explicitly is not the end of the world. So if we were to drop support
>> for that "always install all libs as multilibs" option
>
> Eh? I didn't even know there was such an option. And I agree, /that/
> should be dropped.

man yum.conf; /multilib_policy

it is set to best in fedora.



>> and require explicitly picking the wanted 32-bit stuff from the
>> 32-bit repo, that shouldn't be a real issue for you.
>
> As long as I can still install libs to build i*86 on my mostly-x86_64
> system, without yum getting confused and broken, then I'm okay. My
> concern is really just the "yum getting confused and broken" part. (I
> would prefer to not have to jump through hoops to get i*86 stuff,
> though, i.e. having to manually set up a repo would make me unhappy.)

the issue is not yum getting confused but really there being some 
interesting conflicting files..
-sv

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