[Mageia-dev] Removing Core 32bit from x86_64
Sander Lepik
sander.lepik at eesti.ee
Fri Feb 24 12:13:44 CET 2012
24.02.2012 13:09, Pierre Jarillon kirjutas:
> I have just installed Mga2b1 x86_64 and it is already a great distro. But once
> more, I was annoyed with an unuseful bunch of rpm in rpmdrake which make the
> list less readable. For a beginner, this is more annoying.
>
> So, I have unselected Core 32 bit and everything seams to be ok. As pcpa said
> in "[Cooker] Multilib next steps?", the only reason to run in 32 bit mode is
> legacy binaries that cannot be rebuilt.
>
> IMO, the last useful binary was flashplugin, now the adobe 64bit binary works
> fine. Is it still useful to keep this outgrowth alive?
>
Cooker != cauldron. We still have skype and probably many other packages that need 32-bit
libs. So disabling Core 32 doesn't sound as a good plan to me.
--
Sander
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