Hi;
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 18:05 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Saturday 27 February 2010 05:24:32 pm bruce wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:31 AM, William Case <billlinux(a)rogers.com> wrote:
> > I am using a *fc12.x86_64 machine. I just now upgraded several packages
> > with yum (yumex) and noticed several i686 packages being upgraded as
> > well. Is this normal? Are some packages I have using i686 when I
> > should have only *.86_64 on my machine? Should I remove ALL i686
> > packages or just leave them alone? I am not overly concerned; just
> > wondering.
I agree. If you have 32bit packages on a (cleanly installed) 64bit system,
then they are there probably because something depends on them. Removing them
with yum might give you a hint what app needs them, and could break it if you
insist.
If you have upgraded to F12 from F11 or so, there might be stale 32bit
packages which are not needed anymore (like ndiswrapper, or was it
nspluginwrapper, or...?). In that case it is probably safe to remove them.
The move from FC11 to FC12 was an upgrade. There is probably some i686
(i386) left on my system that I don't even remember putting there.
Instead of looking for them I will make FC13 a virgin install.
It could be all kinds of stuff. One of the reasons I use Fedora is to
try out new things (at least, new to me). If I wanted hard rock
stability I would go to another distribution such as Ubuntu or Debian.
--
Regards Bill
Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28
Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1