> > > My recommendation is to deprecate exactarch and to have yum work the following > > way. > > > > 1) if you update packages that in installs the same arch(es) as is already > > installed. > > This is exactarch=1. The option was added precisely because sometimes you need > to the opposite. > and more to the point the option was added b/c sometimes you never want the opposite to happen by accident. glibc.i686 -> glibc.i386? I remember that fun - esp with nptl. -sv
