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Re: multiarch status update



On 5/11/06, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> wrote:
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:33:45PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

> Why would that not fly?
> Both versions of the arch-independent package could be installed at
> the same time.

/usr/share/foo/bar can't point to two different files at the same time,
so you can't install multiple package versions containing
incompatible /usr/share/foo/bar files.

The only way to support your proposal would be to kill the concept of

I think there are much more ways to implement it. :)
But indeed, having all packages put files in a single directory won't work.
But that approach is resulting in some problems already today.

arch-independent packages and make everything arch-dependent. But that
would be a _HUGE_ waste of resources (/usr/share takes about half the
size of the /usr partition here). It's not worth it.

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