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Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question



Dne st 6. července 2005 22:16 Hugo Mills napsal(a):
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:20:38PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > 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.

Wouldn't be better have /usr/share/doc/<package>/<arch-os>/ directories? No 
files will be overlapping and all libs will have it's own copyright and 
README files (which may differ between different arch-os combinations).

Mixi



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