| From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> | It does happen. It's a regression in FC6 (from FC5). It's already in Bugzilla: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209306 Wow. That is really bad. Doubly so for not being recognized as such by the maintainer. [I recently installed FC6 x86_64 and got waay too many packages installed for both architectures. I understand libraries being installed for both but not application programs. The only application programs that I need in i386 (and would also like in x86_64) are those that take pluggins that come for only i386 (Flash and codec limitations dictate need for i386 browsers and media players). Why did the installation waste so much space on useless duplication? Relevance to this thread: apparently I cannot safely fix the problem manually!] Naive opinion: I don't know what skipDirs is exactly, but it seems like the wrong approach. Surely there should be provision in RPM for files belonging to two packages, files that can only be deleted if both packages are removed. Of course that makes updating rather tricky. Both packages would need to be updated simultaneously (i.e. in the same transaction) unless the file were unchanged. But surely that is the correct approach. Which brings me to this longstanding symptom of the fact that rpm does not understand file sharing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128622
