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.