On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:45:27 -0500, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Could I track down and change yum so that it doesn't do this? Yes.
>Am I going to do it? No.
>Why? Because that would change the functionality of yum on SL5. This
>could unexpected results. The one expected result that I don't want is
>that when someone does an x86_64 install, they would get different
>packages after the change than before the change.
Hi,
I was annoyed by this as well, but there is a configuration option to cha
nge
it. No need to change yum. Just set 'multilib_policy=best' in the yum
.conf
to not install 32 bit versions by default.
Not suggesting this should be the default, though.