Multiarch crazyiness

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Oct 22 18:25:51 UTC 2007


Jon Masters (jonathan at jonmasters.org) 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?

Bill




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