i386 junk on x86_64 default install

[Michel Salim]

On 10/25/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> > 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:
>
> These are showing up because they have a -devel subpackage, and the -devel
> subpackage is what we key off of to make it multilib.  -devel requires its
> arch specific library (usually main) package.
>
> As far as removing, yum remove \*.i?86
>
> Works for me every time. The only shared files that may get removed are
> documents (bug that needs to be fixed but not critical)
>
Does not work for gaim at least:
rpm -e gaim.i386
rpm -V gaim

shows a lot of missing files under /usr/share

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Michel Salim
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