Multiarch crazyiness

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:19:03 +0200
Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:

> Not quite.
> 
> All of my packages, against which complaints have been BZ'ed, all are
> *-devel packages which suffer from
> - Conflicts in /usr/bin/* devel tools (typical *-config scripts)
> - Conflicts in %doc files below /usr/share (90% of them steming from
> doxygen generated docs and __man pages__)
> 
> I.e. these packages run-time packages are installable in parallel, but
> their *-devel packages conflicts.
> 
> So, as it seems to me, the "multiarch" campaign of is aiming at
> parallel installation of the *devel packages.


This is a second problem space, but doesn't change the fact that one
can avoid having the "application" be multilib if all the libs are
split out of it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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