Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

[Manfred Hollstein <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Larry,

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, 15:53:32 +0200, Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Manfred Hollstein
> <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I don't really know; it actually depends on which 32-bit packages (not
> > those from the 32-bit runtime environment, but _actual_ 32-bit
> > applications) you install, and how many 32-bit packages are recommended
> > based on the packages you have selected for installation. As the 32-bit
> > pattern is just a virtual one, its only purpose is to ensure that for
> > any package you want to install and for which a package-32bit
> > counterpart exists, that both packages will be installed. So, e.g. if
> > you de-select an optional libfoo package, no libfoo-32bit would be
> > installed; if, however, you select an optional libzoo, libzoo-32bit will
> > be automatically installed, too.
>
> I have 70 32bit installed on 11.0/x64.  When I tried to remove some, I
> got dependencies on the packages from the 64bit versions.  I have
> 64bit flash installed.  I also have WINE installed, but it shows no
> 32bit dependencies.
>
> Example:
> Consolekit-0.2.10-14.4.x86_64 requires Consolekit-32bit
> kdebase3-3.5.9-100.1.x86_64 requires Mesa-32bit
>
> And many more x86_64 packages that require the 32bit package or a 32bit 
> package.

That's why I wrote about "optional" packages in my posting above. The
packages you are refering to obviously "require" some of the 32bit
packages. Everybody could now try to figure out, how many of these
packages are actually required by the x86_64 packages - if time permits
;-)

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
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