* James Cassell:

> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Sometimes, users run into problems because they install nss_nis on
>> x86_64 and want to use 32-bit applications, but those do not work
>> correctly because nss_nis.i686 is not installed.  I think we have an
>> opportunity here to improve the system administrator experience with
>> reasonable effort.
>> 
>> If we add this to nss_nis.spec:
>> 
>> %ifarch x86_64
>> Recommends: (nss_nis(x86-32) if glibc(x86-32))
>> %endif
>
> What about also adding
>
> %ifarch i686
> Supplements: (glibc(x86-32) if (nss_nis(x86-64))
> %endif
>
> (Untested)

Does this have the same non-ideal behavior regarding late installation
of glibc.i686?

> I'd greatly prefer to avoid hard deps where they aren't absolutely
> necessary.

Recommends: isn't a hard dependency?

Thanks,
Florian
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