Re: multiarch status update
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
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.
Gabor
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