[F8/multilib] {,/usr}/{,s}bin64 (was: Split libperl from perl)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Ven 27 avril 2007 10:35, Axel Thimm a écrit :
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 10:31:28AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>
>> > But why would it require to split out langpacks? These are usually
>> > exactly the same on all archs, so the usual "If two packages share
>> the
>> > same files, they don't conflict" package rule applies and all is
>> well,
>> > or not?
>>
>> Because if you posit packages with invariant content, you can't
>> punch
>> holes in packages to remove the locales the user does not want on
>> his
>> system
>
> Ah, OK, I thought it was multilib relevant, because there is also some
> implemenation bug with multilib and %lang.

There are bugs in all the workarounds added over the years to make
parts of packages (localisation, multilib) optional. The question is
do we want to fix the workarounds or forbid package variability

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot