[Lula] Fedora multiarch

[Joe Bayes]

Dan Kegel writes:

>I can imagine there's a "base" package they figure everybody will need?

I guess. Seems kind of weird that they would install some libraries
"just in case", when yum would take care of that for me if I needed
it. 

>Just run the 32 bit Firefox, forget the 64 bit one, that's my advice :-)

Thanks. ;) I'm actually looking for maximum pain here. It's a toy
machine, not a production one. 

>> So, is /usr/bin/artsd x86_64 code, or i386 code?
>
>  file /usr/bin/artsd

Yeah, okay. Upon further investigation, most binaries in /usr/bin seem
to be 64-bit. My guess is that no matter which package was installed
first, rpm uses the 64-bit binary and throws away the 32-bit
one. Uninstalling the 32-bit package seems to leave the 64-bit binary
alone.

On the other hand, uninstalling the 64-bit version removes the binary,
so I'm left with an i386 package which claims to own a binary that rpm
has already removed. It seems wrong that using only rpm -e I can
jigger the database so that it's inconsistent with the filesystem. 

Joe
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