RE: package manager for RHEL?

["Wichmann, Mats D" <mats d wichmann intel com>]

> Now, on the X86_64 system, one will usually find both the i386 and
> x86_64 libs installed. This is not a flaw or mistake, it is a multilib
> feature developed.  This way, programs that have 64 bit
> implementations can be used, but 32 bit programs that need the
> audit-libs functionality can find it.  The dynamic linker for
> libraries looks in /usr/lib64 first, then /usr/lib.

yes, but the way this appears in rpm in Red Hat's implementation
is horribly nonintuitive. You have to go grokking for special
arguments to give rpm to figure out which package is which,
should you have a reason to operate on only one of them.
Most other distros have chosen to tag the package names in a
way that they can be identified visually; this is not "better" 
in a technical sense but sure is easier to use.