On 3/9/2016 1:20 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 03/09/2016 10:12 AM, g wrote: >> in "closing the gate after the horses have left the corral", i am >> asking is what i did good or bad. > > If you try to run a program and it doesn't run, then removing i686 > might have been bad. Wine is definitely one that will pull in a long > list of i686 dependencies. > > Generally what I recommend is this: If you install a package that you > then decide you don't want, use "yum history undo" or "yum history > rollback" to remove that package. Otherwise, just upgrade and don't > look for things to remove. The amount of disk space used by packages > you don't actively use is measured in cents. Your time is worth far more. A minor(?) downside of too many unneeded packages is how much time yum update takes. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz