[Yum] [PATCH] avoid installing 2 copies of everything multilib

[Sean Dilda]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:11 -0400, Sean Dilda wrote:
> 
>>seth vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've also never figured out what was so heinous about having both i386
>>>and x86_64 of a package installed by default. what's the bad thing that
>>>happens? 
>>
>>Because sometimes the .i386 and .x86_64 version of the package have file 
>>conflicts that rpm won't handle for you.  In this case you get screwed 
>>if you try to do the install.
>>
>>(Case in point, MPICH auto-generates .h files during build time, and 
>>these files contain architecture specific #define's)
> 
> 
> That seems like a packaging bug. If the two packages are intended to
> coexist on the system then they should not have conflicting files. if
> they're not allowed to coexist then they need a Conflicts: for each
> other.

I never said the two were intended to coexist on the same system, yum did.

Are you suggesting that mpich-devel.i386 conflict with 
mpich-devel.x86_64, and vice versa.  Does rpm even allow that?