On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> There is no big problem at a moment, but I hope we will have Alpha and
> PowerPC ports some time later.
> It will be really stupid to have QT2-doc-xxx.i586.rpm, QT2-doc-xxx.alpha.rpm
> and QT2-doc-xxx.powerpc.rpm, as they are exactly the same docs.
> (same is valid for for -devel rpms)
> And, I hope we will have AMD Athlons builds as well...
> (even if they are not officially supported by Mandrake I believe there is a
> group of enthusiasts which can handle it)
> Question will be again - what to do with QT2-doc-xxx.athlon.rpm ?
> It will just waste yours/mine HDD space if there is already i586 version on
> it.
1. Why would you install an .i586 package if you installed you system as
athlon?
2. QT2-doc-xxx.athlon.rpm and QT2-doc-xxx.i586.rpm can't coexists, since
they have the same files. And if they did, it wouldn't take more place.
3. The -devel package sometimes include static libraries.
seb
