Fighting the i386 plague

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:25:09PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell writes:
> 
> >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.
> 
> No, this is the other way around.  rpm is broken.  If both package X and 
> package Y install the same file, removing package X _SHOULD NOT_ remove the 
> shared file.

If two packages own the same file then it's a bug in packaging!

Regards,
R.

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