On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Javier Perez wrote:
> I got rid of all i386 again, at least it does not show on
> rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n'|grep i386
> or in
> yum list *.i386
>
> Nothing shows as installed on my system.
>
> I will look on the config files, just to make sure nothing got lost.
Have you remembered i686 packages as well? There are probably a handful of
notable ones such as glibc.i686. I think the ix86 packages in x86_64
installs are basically there to support i386 applications, because not
everything is compiled as x86_64, and particularly third party software.
If you are never going to use anything except pure x86_64 applications,
you can probably reduce your system to a pure x86_64 one, but otherwise
you might need some of the ix86 packages.
Michael Young
