I have no idea why the packages are installed along with the x86_64 ones however I add excludepkgs=*.i386 *.i686 to yum.conf and it cakes care of that. Dan Burkland -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Mathieu Baudier Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:09 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 on X86_64: yum installs both i386 and x86_64 packages 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. > > -- > http://vnoss.org > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos