x86_64/i386

[Michael A. Peters]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:33:07 -0500
> "Sieranski, Greg" <greg.sieranski at quoininc.com> wrote:
> 
>> but since i dont have flash or acrobat reader running on my x86_64 
>> system it would otherwise be ok to do?
> 
> I've been experimenting with exactly that idea (x86_64 only, no 32-bit stuff at
> all) ever since I set up this computer with F8/x86_64 a while back.  It's
> working fine, with the obvious exception that you can't run i386 software on
> it.  Not a problem for most stuff.
> 
> If you try it and don't like it, I think you could put it back to being a
> i386-capable machine by simply removing that line from yum.conf and installing
> some i386 software.  However, I'm not entirely certain of that -- does anyone
> know for sure?
> 

Yes you can.

I did it. I was solely x86_64 (in CentOS) for about 3 days - until I 
discovered a site I frequent really does depend upon flash.

Not only did the flash plugin pull in a bunch of i386 dependencies - but 
nspluginwrapper didn't work unless I also had i386 firefox installed.