On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:03, Chris Stankaitis wrote:
I grabbed fc6-x86_64 and did a stock install (with office/prod
selected)
and to my horror the install included about 158 i386/686 RPM's. with a
big massive rpm -e line I was able to take them out. I had i386/686
duplicates for most programs, gaim/firefox/openssl etc...
To the best of my understanding every package for fedora x86_64 should
be included out of the box for x86_64, and that 32bit compatibility
should only be added after the fact if it's required for a 3rd party
apps not maintained by fedora?
I would like to keep my x86_64 box "clean" of 32 bit applications if
possible, and having to rpm -e 100+ of them as my first step of a
post-kickstart is a pain in the butt. has anyone else seen this? I am
willing to help track things down off the list if anyone would like to
investigate this further.
This is by design. Multilib should Just Work for those that need it. Those
that KNOW they don't need it can do the removal with a simple yum command:
yum remove \*.i?86
Then add
exclude=*.i?86 to /etc/yum.conf and never see them again.
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora