Am 21.07.2013 14:02, schrieb Michael Schwendt: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:59:21 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: > >> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:13:03 +0200 >> lee wrote: >> >>> >>> BTW, why are there so many i686 packages installed: >> >> I have noticed Fedora x86_64 tends to do that as long as I've been >> using Fedora. >> what I've resorted to in /etc/yum.conf is: >> exclude=*i386* *i486* *i586* *i686 >> >> It will complain if try you remove them, >> but it can be done slowly\carefully. >> using rpm -e --nodeps where appropriate (Use with Caution) > > That is wrong advice and a very dangerous *never* type "--nodeps" at all as long you are not 100% sure what you are doing at the moment > You don't need --nodeps to remove the 32-bit packages and not for anything else if you are not firm how to recover your system if there was a cross-dependency killing nss or similar mandatory libraries resulting in rpm, yum, sshd are dead and you are done until restore the library files per hand been there with "rpm -e --nodeps nss-softokn" years ago to solve a different dependency problem > You could do things similar to > rpm -qa|grep \.i\*86$|xargs rpm -e ouch - why not "yum remove \*.i686" instead bypass yum? been there, done that often before "exclude=*.i686"
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