i386 junk on x86_64 default install

[Jesse Keating]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 22:49, Michel Salim wrote:
> Having 32-bit libraries makes sense, for the purpose of running legacy
> closed-source applications. Having i386 -devel packages... does not.
> What's the point, without a 32-bit compiler to go along?

The point is to be able to develop 32bit applications.  64bit gcc can create 
32 bit binaries.  -m32.

>
> And then there are the i386 applications: firefox, gaim, etc. These
> get installed by default (there's no way I can see to exclude i386
> packages short of using kickstart). Removing them should be
> straightforward, right? Just yum --remove glibc.i686. But it's not
> that simple:

These are showing up because they have a -devel subpackage, and the -devel 
subpackage is what we key off of to make it multilib.  -devel requires its 
arch specific library (usually main) package.  

As far as removing, yum remove \*.i?86

Works for me every time. The only shared files that may get removed are 
documents (bug that needs to be fixed but not critical)

> 1. Often times, removing a 32-bit package also removes the files
> shared with the 64-bit sibling.
> 2. With the default FC6 install, I get a circular dependency when
> trying to remove glibc.i686. It never displays the final list of
> affected packages.

Again, try: yum remove \*.i?86

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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