Multilib packages and common identical files issue

[Rex Dieter]

Matthias Saou wrote:


> Am I right to believe that this is a bug in rpm, where it should be
> keeping these "common" files upon erasing one of the two multilib
> packages (and ideally timestamping them with the correct timestamps
> from the remaining package)?

rpm certainly should be leaving identical common files behind (and it does
in most cases).  If not, then imo, it certainly is a bug.

-- Rex