On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:25 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jon Masters (jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Without ranting aimlessly, IMO the only real solution is to stop > > kludging rpm, yum, etc. and split out multilib libraries properly - and > > if needed, seek and get approval for a bin64/bin32 with alternatives > > system. Hacking RPM to simply ignore the fact that two packages provide > > the same file is not the solution. > > Congrats. You just suggested /usr/bin64 to solve conflicting files in > /usr/share/doc. How does that work, exactly? You're right. I am a fool. More importantly though, I didn't properly consider the conflicting docs issue - I think in that case it's a case of the file being in the wrong package. I know you don't like the bin32/bin64 idea, but I think it's the only real way to "solve" having both binary flavors of a package installed at the same time, if that needs to be solved. The lesser issue - more easily solved - is that of libraries, where I think a general consensus to split them out into -libs packages over time would do the trick. Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
