Why has yum behavior changed in F9?

[Rex Dieter]

Paolo Galtieri wrote:

> Today I installed F9 on an x86_64 laptop which previously was running F8
> and so far I find F9 to be a regression from F8. In F8 when I ran:
> 
>   yum -y install gtk2
> 
> it would install both the i386 version and the x86_64 version of the
> package. In F9 it only installs the x86_64 version, I have to explicitly
> install the i386 version. Why the regression?

Not regression, change of default behavior.  Many, many folks disliked that.

controlled via conf parameter multilib_policy (in /etc/yum.conf) as
multilib_policy=best
which is the current, default behavior or,
multilib_policy=all
to install all available archs, matching F8.

-- Rex