[CentOS] YUM grabbing two architectures

[Steve Finkelstein]

And having both packages on the system won't necessarily break anything?

Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 5/8/07, Steve Finkelstein <sf at stevefink.net> wrote:
>> Afternoon all,
>>
>> Is there any particular reason why yum fetches rpms for two
>> architectures on almost any update/install I'd like to perform? This
>> includes both i386 and x86_64. Here's a small excerpt after performing a
>> 'yum update'
> 
> This is the multi-arch support, so you can use x86 applications on
> x86_64 systems.
> 
>> I'm assuming I'll have to put in an explicit arch into /etc/yum.conf?
> 
> You can if you like.