[arch-multilib] gcc-libs-multilib should not replace gcc-libs

Jan Steffens jan.steffens at gmail.com
Fri Aug 27 14:03:20 EDT 2010


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just noticed that gcc-libs-multilib replaces and provides gcc-libs. I
> would prefer if this package would just provide those files in
> /usr/lib32 and not replace a core package. The disadvantages of the
> current package are that systems might break if gcc in core/testing is
> newer and its more difficult to remove the multilib packages. I see that
> this is a bigger problem for gcc itself; but this wont be installed by
> the average user anyway and only in the build chroot.
>
> So my suggestion would be that multilib (runtime) packages should not
> replace packages from core or extra.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Pierre

I will be splitting lib32-gcc-libs from gcc-multilib.

All lib32-packages should depend on this instead of gcc-libs-multilib.
I'll fix these:

|--gcc-libs-multilib
   |--lib32-mesa
   |--lib32-pcre
   |--lib32-db
   |--gcc-multilib
   |--lib32-gnutls
   |--nspluginwrapper
   |--lib32-flac

Are there any left?


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