[CentOS] Cons of disabling *.i386 and *.i686 in a 64bit Distribution

Wed Sep 14 14:52:59 UTC 2011
James Nguyen <james at callfire.com>

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.

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?

I guess I could spin up a virtual and try, but wanted to see what the census
already knows about this matter as well.

Thanks!
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james h nguyen | lead systems architect | www.callfire.com | 1.949.625.4263
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