Can anybody give me a reason why this would be a bad idea.  So the premise for this question is that I setup an exclude=*.i368,*.i686 in my yum.conf.  While doing a yum update I come across missing package dependencies for instance mkinitrd for the i386 package.  I noticed there is already one for x86_64.  I realized during the kickstart install that some of these *.i386 got installed before I could enable the exclude in the yum.conf.<div>
<br></div><div>So the questions I pose is... why are some of these *.i386 packages getting installed on a 64bit distro? is there any harm is removing them all?</div><div><br></div><div>I guess I could spin up a virtual and try, but wanted to see what the census already knows about this matter as well.</div>
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