On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 16:41 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> It's not to be considered a bug, AFAIK. We don't
stipulate that
> development packages be installable side-by-side in this way, we only
> stipulate that for library packages where there's a need for it. There's
> no particular use case where you absolutely need both -devel packages
> installed at once.
>
I believe this is incorrect. devel packages are supposed to be multilib
installable. There's two things that are two files that conflict above and
there's two different fixes for each.
I'm happy to be wrong :), but is this documented anywhere? That's why I
thought the opposite was the case, I couldn't find anything to this
effect in the packaging documentation when I was starting out.
It seems like a lot of work for very little return if it is our policy,
especially fiddling around with *-config and the like executables, which
are far from uncommon...what's the use case for multilib -devel
packages? When is it actually useful to have both arches installed at
once for a -devel package?
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