On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I am against it because it adds clutter that I don't want ... also, if I > ever need to build anything on a machine with multi-lib it is very hard > to control what the auto config/compile tools do. > > Then there are sometimes issues with the way RH does multi-lib ... the > sharing of config and doc files. This sometimes causes issues. > > But, the overriding reason is, if I wanted to run i686 stuff, I would > have installed the i686 distro :) Thing is, when you hit the end of the road and have a 32bit compiled piece of software that you can't rebuild, you have to accept that you *do* want to run 32bit software, but would rather run 64bit when possible. In that reality, having only necessary 32bit libs installed doesn't really cause the world to implode. jh