[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 on X86_64: yum installs both i386 and x86_64 packages

Frank Cox posted above this line,
'  yum remove \*.i?86   '

What I do is put the package name and then the platform. E.g php-cli.x86_64

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Patrick McEvoy <
pmcevoy at silvacapitalmanagement.com> wrote:

> I have just found this post regarding the removal of .i?86 packages on a
> x86_64 machine, http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2590.  I assume that
> these issues still exist for CentOS 5.3.  Anyone have advice on how to
> remove the duplicate packages safely?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
>
> Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> > Out of pure curiosity:
> > Does anybody know why both i386 and x86_64 are installed by default?
> >
> > On other x86_64 platforms I rather tend to cherrypick the i386
> > packages and install them on a case by case basis.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 06:49, Vnpenguin <vnpenguin at vnoss.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I removed all i?86 on my x86_64 servers. No problem.
> >>
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