Re: duplicate RPMs on an AMD64 box (was: Multiple arch rpm install in EM64T)

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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:14:03PM -0500, Vadim Nasardinov wrote:

> I'm a little confused by this whole duplicate RPM business as well.  I
> recently installed FC3 on a new AMD64 machine.  I noticed that some
> RPMs were installed in duplicate.  For example,
>
> ...
> 
> That's a little confusing.  This breaks my mental model of how RPM is
> supposed to work.

In what sense?

Files/directories can be owned by multiple packages *if* they
are exactly the same (otherwise the packages would conflict).
This happened in the past for example with several XFree86-*
packages.

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