Re: Cons of disabling *.i386 and *.i686 in a 64bit Distribution

[Christopher Hawker <cwhawker1@xxxxxxxxx>]

I could not see any issues with it. As you probably know i386 packages will work on an x86_64 install, and there are some packages written for i386 that you can't get for x86_64. You could disable it, but my system runs perfect with it.

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:52 AM, James Nguyen <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can anybody give me a reason why this would be a bad idea.  So the premise for this question is that I setup an exclude=*.i368,*.i686 in my yum.conf.  While doing a yum update I come across missing package dependencies for instance mkinitrd for the i386 package.  I noticed there is already one for x86_64.  I realized during the kickstart install that some of these *.i386 got installed before I could enable the exclude in the yum.conf.

So the questions I pose is... why are some of these *.i386 packages getting installed on a 64bit distro? is there any harm is removing them all?

I guess I could spin up a virtual and try, but wanted to see what the census already knows about this matter as well.

Thanks!

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