Fighting the i386 plague

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:19:08AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 January 2007 08:42, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > It's not really a bug. It's a side effect of multilib that requires special
> > treatment. The trick is to implement this in rpm effectively.
> 
> But there is an actual bug in rpm taking away files that also belong to 
> another multilib package.

Right.

> You're right, it is necessary for some to split -libs out, mostly because 
> development of said app never took into account multilib and far too many 
> things would clash (different content in the files between the arches for 
> common directories)

Or because the x86 version is faster due to assembly-optimized code.
For example lame.

Regards,

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