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

Fri Sep 16 10:01:50 UTC 2011
Michael Simpson <mikie.simpson at gmail.com>

On 15 September 2011 19:58, James Nguyen <james at callfire.com> wrote
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:02 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: James Nguyen <james at callfire.com>
>>
>> > 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.
>>

On our 2 colo servers we have one with i386/i686 only and on the other
we are x86_64 only. Everything works (typical LAMP / Sendmail etc
install)
I just followed the intstructions from the centos wiki

http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9

i used to regret the lack of a 64 bit native flash plugin which was
the only reason to not move to a pure 64bit enviroment for the desktop
but now that you-tube can serve html5 i no longer care

mike