I could not see any issues with it. As you probably know i386 packages will work on an x86_64 install, and there are some packages written for i386 that you can&#39;t get for x86_64. You could disable it, but my system runs perfect with it.<br>
<br>--<br>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me on +61 478 241 896.<br><br>Regards,<br>Christopher Hawker<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:52 AM, James Nguyen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:james@callfire.com">james@callfire.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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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