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 at 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. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) -----------------------------