Yes, sometimes various packages containing same files can be installed
without conflict only because the conflicted files are identical. Hope
that's not too important anyway.......
Abel Cheung
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> With the recent discussion about the conflicting README file
> in the kernel, I decided to check for other files that are
> owned by more than one package. I have attached the output
> of my quick-and-dirty script.
> I scans only the installed packages, but that should cover
> most issues.
>
> Most of the time, the problem is just a few files, but there
> are some more severe cases:
> 146 duplicates in openssl-0.9.6-7mdk and openssl-devel-0.9.6-7mdk
> 96 duplicates in XFree86-4.0.3-3mdk and XFree86-devel-4.0.3-3mdk
> 76 duplicates in bonobo-0.37-2mdk and libbonobo2-devel-0.37-2mdk
> 76 duplicates in icewm-1.0.7-2mdk and icewm-light-1.0.7-2mdk
> 58 duplicates in kdeaddutils-2.1-1mdk and kdegames-2.1.1-1mdk
> 32 duplicates in sane-backends-1.0.4-2mdk and sane-1.0.4-2mdk
>
> The sum of these files is about 4 MB for me that get installed from
> more than one RPM.
>
> Arnd <><
>
