On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:20:38PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Stephan Seitz <nur-ab-sal@gmx.de> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:34:26PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >>We are not saying you shouldn't make binaries coinstallable for
> >>multiple archs, we are only saying we won't make this a policy. It is
> >>left to each package maintainer to decide if he wants to make the
> >>multiarch change for his binary too or not and nearly every one will
> >>not.
> >
> > All right, this is a solution I can live with. Until now I thought,
> > that it would be impossible, even with multiarch, to install two
> > programs together.
>
> It is impossible to install two packages that contain the same
> filename. Libraries use /usr/lib/arch-os/ to make libs differ between
> archs.
That's not _entirely_ true. In Tollef's multiarch proposal, files
in /usr/share/doc/<package> can indeed overlap between packages with
precisely the same name differing only in architecture. My preliminary
patches to dpkg supported that behaviour.
> Also programs don't depend on something like galeon (i hope).
Yes, this is an assumption of Tollef's proposal. Actually, it's
that programs don't depend on galeon *and care what the architecture
of that package is*. (I think... don't hold me to that... :) )
Hugo.
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