https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225749 mls@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |ma@novell.com Severity|Enhancement |Normal ------- Comment #12 from mls@novell.com 2007-01-17 03:57 MST ------- If it's going to be generic, please make it configurable (i.e. some users don't want all 32bit libs installed, just the ones dragged in by library dependencies). The biggest problem I see is that rpm has no way to tag dependencies with an architecture. Real life has two types of dependencies: 1) "feature" dep: I want this program/feature to work 2) "extension" dep: I am an extension for a program/lib with a specific architecture. As an example, our perl modules have "Require: perl = <version>", but in reality it is perl with a specific version *and architecture*. Another example are -devel and -debuginfo packages, they also need the exact architecture. Yet another example: My brother upgraded a x86_64 host from 10.0 to 10.2, 10.0 has a i386 only Firefix. He then did an YOU update that installed the "MozillaFirefox-translations" translations package, but with architecture x86_64! The package was not installed before, so libzypp happily selected the x86_64 architecture. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.