On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:03, Chris Stankaitis wrote: > I grabbed fc6-x86_64 and did a stock install (with office/prod selected) > and to my horror the install included about 158 i386/686 RPM's. with a > big massive rpm -e line I was able to take them out. I had i386/686 > duplicates for most programs, gaim/firefox/openssl etc... > > To the best of my understanding every package for fedora x86_64 should > be included out of the box for x86_64, and that 32bit compatibility > should only be added after the fact if it's required for a 3rd party > apps not maintained by fedora? > > I would like to keep my x86_64 box "clean" of 32 bit applications if > possible, and having to rpm -e 100+ of them as my first step of a > post-kickstart is a pain in the butt. has anyone else seen this? I am > willing to help track things down off the list if anyone would like to > investigate this further. This is by design. Multilib should Just Work for those that need it. Those that KNOW they don't need it can do the removal with a simple yum command: yum remove \*.i?86 Then add exclude=*.i?86 to /etc/yum.conf and never see them again. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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