On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:15:19 -0600 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Well, whatever undocumented crap it does that allows both i386 and > > x86_64 rpms to install "the same" files (which are in fact obviously > > different) is clearly a wart about the size of the titanic. > > > No, that's a feature and it lets you run packages that haven't been > rebuilt for x86_64 and need 32 bit libraries (what, you have a single > source for software?). I'm talking far more insane stuff than that. Things like foobar.i386.rpm and foobar.x86_64.rpm both being installed at the same time and both "owning" the file /usr/bin/foobar when you can look at /usr/bin/foobar and see that it is clearly an x86_64 executable and did not under any circumstances come from foobar.i386.rpm. This became far more obvious in FC6 when the default x86_64 install seemed to also install every single version of the corresponding i386 package as well (libraries I can understand, but this is junk like utility programs which couldn't possibly need to have a 32 bit version installed).
