x86_64 with duplicate packages

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Martin Marques wrote:
> Hi, I have a Compaq Presario with a AMD Trion64 and I noticed that lots
> of packages get installed in two distinct versions: one for 64bit and
> another for 32bit system.
> 
> So I have things like this:
> 
> # rpm -qa kdeutils
> kdeutils-3.5.6-3.fc7.x86_64
> kdeutils-3.5.6-3.fc7.i386
> 
> Is it a bad idea to remove the 32bit package?

Try `rpm -e kdeutils-3.5.6-3.fc7.i386 --test` and see what packages 
depend on it. That should give you a fairly decent idea of whether it is 
safe or not.
My system is also full of i386 packages that I would prefer weren't 
there, but if yum installed them, there had to be a pretty good reason. 
I've stopped worrying about it.

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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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