On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 7:22 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
>
> Nicolas Mailhot via devel wrote:
>
> > It would be much clearer and user-friendly to move I*86 packages out of
> > the 64 bit repos and make the i*86 an optional add-on
>
> +1 to that suggestion.
>
>
> Vitaly Zaitsev via devel replied:
>
> > It will break multilib.
>
> Not really. It would break the legacy "install all packages as multilib if
> available" mode, which has not been the default modus operandi of YUM for
> years now. Does DNF even support this mode? (That mode would break because
> the depsolver would attempt multilibbing all packages including ones which
> are not intended to be multilib and hence contain multilib conflicts.) But
> the default "install only the multilibs that are actually required by some
> 32-bit-only package" mode should work just fine with that setup (and IMHO,
> that is the only multilib mode that makes sense anyway).
>

This is definitely supported, as this is how multilib works on Mageia
and OpenMandriva today, both of which use DNF too.



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