Description of problem: When you install on x86_64, it keeps installing many x86 packages (402 in my case, out of 1766 totally installed for f8t2) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.3.0.28-1.x86_64.rpm How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install x86_64 version of f8t2 2. yum remove glibc.i686 3. see all the x86 packages included to remove for dependancy Actual results: many x86 packages are by default installed Expected results: a way to choose between this default of multilib policy, but also chance to install only x86_64 packages. In the same way obtained if after install time you do a yum install yum-basearchonly Is this possible to enable at install time....? Additional info:
No, there is current no way to provide this functionality. This is just how our 86_64 platform is set up right now - you get these i386 packages as well for compatibility (think needing to run plugins that are only compiled for i386). I don't know what the overall Fedora multilib plan is, but anaconda will go with this for now until we make a distribution-wide change. It's possible for you to later remove lots of i386 packages using yum and then disallow upgrades or installs of all other i386 packages, however. We just don't want to start exposing this sort of stuff in anaconda.