On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:26:33PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Oh, one example is multilib (and I don't believe this behavior is > > multilib-specific): > Oh but it is. Multilib is one gigantic undocumented screwup The specific thing in multilib is that the files can overlap without being identical. In perfectly normal RPM, two packages can own an identical file as long as it is actually bit-for-bit identical. (This is, of course, fragile when there's an update to one package but not the others.) > that exists only because someone wanted to avoid having to > repackage everything in the universe to split it into common > parts and arch specific parts. That seems like a completely awesome thing to avoid. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
