Fighting the i386 plague

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:26:22AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 January 2007 08:11, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > If two packages own the same file then it's a bug in packaging!
> 
> Welcome to multilib packages.  Many files will be exactly the same between 
> the .i386 and the .x86_64 packages.

There's no reason that they should. With careful packaging it's possible
to have libraries (i.e. the only binaries that need to be multilib'd)
in separate packages.

Regards,

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl>
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
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