i386 junk on x86_64 default install

[Gilboa Davara]

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 17:47 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> On 10/26/06, Rob Andrews <rob at choralone.org> wrote:
> > On 26-Oct-2006 12:02.37 (BST), Gilboa Davara wrote:
> >  > Maybe this will be a good time to resurface this thread:
> >  > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-August/msg00709.html
> >
> > Doesn't strike me as a bad idea, but you should be able to manage this by
> > performing an install from a customised repository (minus all of the i386
> > arch packages), running genhdlist and installing, then ensuring any
> > installations are done along the lines of:
> >
> >     yum install <foo>.x86_64
> >
> > A 'yum update' already does The Right Thing and only updates installed
> > packages, so doesn't pull in any 32-bit packages that aren't already
> > installed.
> >
> > Maybe a "64-bit pure" flag for Anaconda would help make this easier?
> >
> Perhaps call it "native binaries only" just in case there are more
> multilib architectures in Fedora's future.
> 

The easiest solution will be to give the user an option to add yum
exclude flags during the installation.

- Gibloa