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't get for x86_64. You could disable it, but my system runs perfect with it. -- If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me on +61 478 241 896. Regards, Christopher Hawker On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:52 AM, James Nguyen <james at callfire.com> wrote: > 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! > -- > > james h nguyen | lead systems architect | www.callfire.com | > 1.949.625.4263 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110915/2e45b50f/attachment-0004.html>