Fighting the i386 plague

[Jonathan Corbet]

I'm one of those strange people who thinks that, by virtue of having an
x86_64 system, I shouldn't need to drag a lot of i386 packages around.
But keeping them off the system is a real pain.  I ran "yum update" on
my rawhide system just now, and got the following output:

 gutenprint              x86_64     5.0.0-4.fc7      extras-development  2.7 M
     replacing  gimp-print-utils.x86_64 4.2.7-24.fc7

 gutenprint              i386       5.0.0-4.fc7      extras-development  2.7 M
     replacing  gimp-print-utils.x86_64 4.2.7-24.fc7

Can anybody tell me why it wants to pull in the i386 version of
gutenprint to replace the x86_64 version of gimp-print-utils?  Is there
any way to convince it not to do things like that?

Thanks,

jon