On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 04:55:56AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Adrian Sevcenco Adrian.Sevcenco@cern.ch wrote:
Hi! I recently encountered a situation when a x86_64 package is dependent on i686 packages.. Does anyone with packaging experience know why this could be necessary? What arguments (logical and technical) can i bring to the said packager in order to stop this chain of dependencies?
You can find such an example in a recent bug report. Turns out it was due to user's set up ...
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6944
So, you'd need to analyse your situation (decipher the yum output etc) and determine what's causing it.
One that comes to mind is Google Earth. Their alleged 64-bit packages have dependencies on 32-bit packages. Go figure.