Why has yum behavior changed in F9?

[Paolo Galtieri]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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
>
>   
This option doesn't seem to work.  I try to install a package for which 
there is both an i386 version and an x86_64 version and it still only 
installs the x86_64 version.

Paolo