CentOS - May 2007 - YUM grabbing two architectures

Afternoon all,

Is there any particular reason why yum fetches rpms for two
architectures on almost any update/install I'd like to perform? This
includes both i386 and x86_64. Here's a small excerpt after performing a
'yum update'

 cups-libs               i386       1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.18  update
   107 k
 cups-libs               x86_64     1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.18  update
   112 k

I'm assuming I'll have to put in an explicit arch into /etc/yum.conf?

- sf

On 5/8/07, Steve Finkelstein <sf at stevefink.net>
wrote:
> Afternoon all,
>
> Is there any particular reason why yum fetches rpms for two
> architectures on almost any update/install I'd like to perform? This
> includes both i386 and x86_64. Here's a small excerpt after performing
a
> 'yum update'
This is the multi-arch support, so you can use x86 applications on
x86_64 systems.
> I'm assuming I'll have to put in an explicit arch into
/etc/yum.conf?
You can if you like.
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