While doing some test installs of sl5.5 I noticed that on an x86_64 
machine we were pulling in:

   kdegraphics-devel-3.5.4-15.el5_4.2.i386
   kdepim-devel-3.5.4-6.el5.i386

while up to sl5.3 (I didn't test sl5.4) we only got the x86_64 versions.

Generally we like having both i386 and x86_64 versions of the -devel 
packages on x86_64 but in this case the .i386 and .x86_64 packages seem to 
have identical contents (ie just headers and directories)...

for i in kde{graphics,pim}-devel.{i386,x86_64}; do printf "%-25s " $i; rpm -qvl $i | md5sum; rpm -V $i; done
kdegraphics-devel.i386    24654039a29d8c5a5377cd6bbdec63e9  -
kdegraphics-devel.x86_64  24654039a29d8c5a5377cd6bbdec63e9  -
kdepim-devel.i386         5bde45000b92ed850302838a04c0ed77  -
kdepim-devel.x86_64       5bde45000b92ed850302838a04c0ed77  -

for this pair why are both .i386 and .x86_64 packages available?

Clearly I can (and shortly will) exclude the .i386 versions from my 
kickstart files, but I wondered about the history...

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