[Fedora-packaging] Re: -devel arch dependencies

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Apr 12 13:45:45 UTC 2007


Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:22:00PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:

>>> Try rpm -Va 2>&1 | grep missing
>> Done that, waaaaaaaayyyyy too many docs and translations gone. I forced
>> a reinstall of the packages I thought could be the cause (i.e. glibc*,
>> libgnome, gtk2/glib2 etc.) but without any apparent success.
>>
>> Anyway, my point was that from my POV multilib is ugly (I think we're
>> all aware of that and all agree...),
> 
> In fact, I like multilib/multiarch. It isn't the general concept that
> sucks, but our overwrite concept and the buggy implementation in rpm.

And buggy packages marking items as %doc that aren't truly optional.

-- Rex




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