[Mageia-dev] Removing Core 32bit from x86_64

Fri Feb 24 12:31:58 CET 2012

On Friday, 24 February 2012 13:09:45 Pierre Jarillon wrote:
+> 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.
+
+Then rpmdrake shouldn't be showing libraries by default.
+
+> 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.
+
+Or to run wine on x86_64.
+Or to run other proprietary applications/libraries provided by vendors (not 
+necessarily apps we have in non-free).
+
+IMHO, Mandriva is going backwards in this regard.
+
+$ rpm -qa --qf '%{ARCH} %{NAME}\n'|grep -Ev '(^x86_64|noarch|i586 lib|
+\(none\))'
+i586 wine32
+i586 opera
+i586 googleearth
+i586 playonlinux
+i386 teamviewer6
+i586 skype
+i586 acroread
+i586 wine
+i386 oracle-xe
+i586 python-psyco
+i586 wine-gecko
+i386 ICAClient
+
+> IMO, the last useful binary was flashplugin, now the adobe 64bit binary
+> works fine. Is it still useful to keep this outgrowth alive?
+
+Provide good, in-distro documentation on how to resolve 32-bit dependencies, 
+or IMHO removing the 32bit repos is a regression. We are a *very* long way 
+from adequate documentation.
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+