Question on 64-bit + 32-bit

Sun Jun 3 12:00:57 UTC 2012


Am 03.06.2012 13:57, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
> A very elementary question, I assume:
> Why are 32-bit applications (as well as 64-bit)
> downloaded on a 64-bit system?
> Are they essential, ie would the system run without them?

you do not need any i686 crap on your system

yun can even specify "exclude=*.i686" in yum.conf
or repos to prevent yum following broken update paths
by pulling i686 packages in stupidity

rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | wc -l
1127

rpm -qa | grep i686 | wc -l
0


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