I do think it makes sense for yum to install both i386 and x86_64 variants of a package, if both are available, unless specified otherwise. What I don't think makes sense, though, is having /so/ many i386 packages available in the x86_64 tree, and thus also in the installation media. Having 32-bit libraries makes sense, for the purpose of running legacy closed-source applications. Having i386 -devel packages... does not. What's the point, without a 32-bit compiler to go along? And then there are the i386 applications: firefox, gaim, etc. These get installed by default (there's no way I can see to exclude i386 packages short of using kickstart). Removing them should be straightforward, right? Just yum --remove glibc.i686. But it's not that simple: 1. Often times, removing a 32-bit package also removes the files shared with the 64-bit sibling. 2. With the default FC6 install, I get a circular dependency when trying to remove glibc.i686. It never displays the final list of affected packages. Would it be possible, for FC7, to limit the 32-bit packages included in -core to only the 32-bit libraries? Anything that installs to /usr/bin should be excluded. Maybe include a core-i386 repository that is by default disabled, for users who need 32-bit apps. -- Michel Salim http://salimma.livejournal.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
