FC6 - Stock x86_64 stock install, installs about 158 i386/686 rpm's

[Jesse Keating]

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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