File conflicts, how do they work at that point?

[Hans de Goede]

Olivier Galibert wrote:
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/bin/smcs from install of mono-core-1.2.5.1-3.fc8 conflicts with file from package mono-core-1.2.5.1-3.fc8
> 
> Now that's a beautiful error message :-) Probably one is x86_64 and
> the other i386.
> 
> What are the rules for file conflicts now?  I thought they didn't
> exist anymore since multilib makes them more than annoying, and you
> couldn't even install both glibcs, but it looks like they can still
> appear somehow...
>
They do not exist for elf binaries, for other files, the files must be 
identical for both x86_64 and i386, my guess: smcs is a shell script?

Regards,

Hans