[Yum] Yum exactarch flag not working right

[Mark Lane]

I noticed a problem installing thunderbird onto my system today using yum 
install. It wanted to install both the i386 and x86_64 packages instead of 
just the x86_64 package. That makes no sense whatsoever.

I have exactarch=0 so I can install i386 packages if I wish but if I don't 
specific the arch it should install the x86_64 package because my system is 
x86_64. It definitely shouldn't be installing both.

My recommendation is to deprecate exactarch and to have yum work the following 
way.

1) if you update packages that in installs the same arch(es) as is already 
installed.

2)  If I install a package it should install just the basearch package unless 
told otherwise by the .arch extension. An additional extension (.all) can be 
used to may yum install all available arches.

This should cover every situation that I can think of. 

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