Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 21, 2007 18:14 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by evgeny
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

Okay, here's a key feature dpkg+apt is lacking that RPM has had for some time now:

* Sane multi-lib support.

Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 21, 2007 23:07 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] (1 responses)

Not quite. "yum install foo" will install both foo.x86_64 and foo.i386 and all dependencies for both. I expect it to install foo.x86_64 only. Apart from that, it's mostly OK.

Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 22, 2007 8:08 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

So, run "yum install foo.x86_64".