On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 10:48 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > For sanity's sake on upgrades, leaving the libraries in the same > > > package name (multilib) would be best. > > > > I'm confused, do you want to keep the libraries in ncurses package? > > (This has nothing to to with OLPC, and everything to do with the distro) > > If the libraries move to a different package, we end up with ncurses-devel/ > ncurses-libs being multilib, instead of ncurses-devel/ncurses as we have > currently. This causes problems for upgrades with getting a no-longer-multilib > ncurses package off the system for the secondary arch. So, if possible, > keeping the libraries in the 'same' package as it was previously is preferred. Bill, to be honest, I think deciding the package shape based on the broken way we are currently detecting multi-libs is a bad way to decide. We should fix the way we detect multi-libs, not produce substandard packaging to keep the current multi-libs detection process happy. IMO, Simo. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
