On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Adrian Sevcenco <Adrian.Sevcenco at cern.ch> wrote: > Hi! I recently encountered a situation when a x86_64 package is > dependent on i686 packages.. > Does anyone with packaging experience know why this could be necessary? > What arguments (logical and technical) can i bring to the said packager > in order to stop this chain of dependencies? You can find such an example in a recent bug report. Turns out it was due to user's set up ... http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6944 So, you'd need to analyse your situation (decipher the yum output etc) and determine what's causing it. Akemi