Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 248911
Anaconda installs i386 Evolution and GNOME in x86_64 systems.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:10 EST
Description of problem: A default installation of F7 in a x86_64 machine installs Evolution and some other GNOME applications in both i386 and x86_64 architectures. At first I assumed this was normal behavior, similar to what happens to Firefox. However, since I don't use them, I decided to remove the i386 packages and run into bug #248884. In the resolution of bug #248884, Matthew Barnes informed me that "Fedora is not designed to have the same application installed twice for different architectures." Then, Anaconda (or Yum) has a bug where applications (in this case Evolution and some other GNOME apps) are wrongly installed twice, inducing the situation where a package removal can also remove some vital components like translations. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F7 installer as released. How reproducible: Deterministic Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install F7, select GNOME. 2. 3.
anaconda is doing entirely the right thing here. We install both arches. mbarnes is just confused. bug 248884 is a bug in rpm as it shouldn't remove the shared files on removing one arch. Reopening and reassigning it accordingly.