On 2/22/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 21:57 -0800, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote: > > normally any two different packages can not > > share a regular file otherwise there will be a > > confliction, but why these two packages > > xorg-x11-libs.x86_64 and xorg-x11-libs.i386 can have > > same files? > > Surely you wouldn't have both of those packages installed? Ones for > 32-bit systems, the other for 64-bit ones. This is normal for 64-bit systems. 32-bit programs (which run fine on x86_64 platforms) need 32-bit libraries to run. Thus both library packages are installed. There are many examples of libraries that are installed in both architectures if you want to run both 64- and 32-bit programs. Jonathan
