Re: A Radical Multi-Arch Counter-Proposal

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:
> 
> > On Jan 16, 2004, at 07:12, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > 
> > > Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:
> > >
> > >>      B. dpkg will be extended to support two packages with the same
> > >> name
> > 
> > >>         (as above) both owning the same file. It will only remove a
> > >> file
> > 
> > >>         from the filesystem when the last owning package is removed.
> > >
> > > Required for shared conffiles at the very least.
> > 
> > Truthfully, I'm worried about shared configuration files. That mess
> > seems hairy.
> 
> Why, the dpkg keeps "file: package1, package2, package3,...". Install
will keep
> adds a package, purge removes one. If all packages are gone the file
> is purged.

MfG
        Goswin