Re: Fighting the i386 plague

[Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:30:38 +0100,
  Phil Knirsch <pknirsch redhat com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 14:11:39 +0100,
> >  Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <D Mierzejewski icm edu pl> wrote:
> >>If two packages own the same file then it's a bug in packaging!
> >
> >If the shared file is the same in both packages, this can be a simpler
> >solution than creating a whole other package just to contain the one shared
> >file.
> >
> 
> So what you would be suggesting is to create new subpackages for any 
> possible shared data?

No, I was explaining to the person I was replying to that this was an
alternative approach. And that there were reasons you might not want to
do this.