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.