Re: [SLUG] Re: I don't run Debian because it is a 14 CD "kitchen sink" distro ...

From: Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith@ieee.org)
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 11:49:41 EST


On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:12, Levi Bard wrote:
> Hmm, last I looked, you had to pick an installation type before it
> would let you add/remove individual packages, if at all.

Did you miss the option that said "Custom"? ;->
That takes you to the 3-tier selection option.

> If they've changed that now, then good.

It's _always_ been like that.

> Good to know. Do you happen to know if a majority of the software in
> the official yum repositories is still 32bit?

By "official" I assume you mean the repositories other than those in the
stock "Fedora Core." Unfortunately, there seems to be _little_ support
for x86-64 outside of "Fedora Core." Fedora Extras, Livna.ORG, etc...
are majorly _lacking_ in x86-64 packages.

For the most part, you typically _can_ rebuild for x86-64 from SRPMS.
But because volunteers haven't been offering x86-64 so packages can be
well tested and released, all we have are the x86-64 packages that come
out of Red Hat and the Fedora team in the stock "Fedora Core."

I.e., no one but Red Hat is putting in the effort. Sad.

I hope I can change that once I get a x86-64 of my own. So far I've
only had servers to play with and they were running Linux/x86, other
than only basic, rudimentary x86-64 testing I was able to do.

-- 
Bryan J. Smith                                 b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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