Roman Kyrylych wrote:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:18, Allan McRae<[email protected]> wrote:
Dan McGee wrote:
1. Making something impossible is never good (this is mostly the
"unforeseen difficulties" excuse)
2. "probably" leaves a lot of wiggle room
3. If your name is Allan McRae (or anyone else) and you run an x86_64
kernel in an i686 userspace
4. If your name is <whoever> and you run random i686 package on a
mostly-x86_64 machine
Probably more, and some of these are weak, but there is enough of a
reason to allow it that I think it would be silly to lay down the law
for people that may need to circumvent the check.
And we all know #3 is the most important! :)
That said, I like this idea as long as it can be disabled. I have seen
people accidentally stuff there systems by doing this on many occasions.
Although, it does fall into the category of stopping stupid people and we
do have a -Rd option...
Well, I've managed to install i686 pacman-git (replacing old pacman)
on my x86_64 system by making a mistake in repo name. :-P
So, you seem a good candidate to do the actual bug report opening so
this idea does not get lost! :D
Allan
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