Fighting the i386 plague

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 1/22/07, David Nielsen <david at lovesunix.net> wrote:
> I seem to remember mentions that this specific solution to the multilib
> disaster would cause problems by removing needed packages. Any truth to
> that?

Not needed packages.. files..

Right now foo.x86_64.rpm and foo.i386.rpm can provide
/usr/share/foo/important_arch_neutral_file_such_as_a_manpage

If you remove foo.i386.rpm the shared file will get nuked.

RPM can recognize such overlaps and do the right thing, but some code
which greatly speeds up dependency computation breaks that.