[gentoo-dev] Re: Making a common sub-profile for no-multilib

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Jonathan Callen posted on Thu, 03 Jul 2014 03:05:46 -0400 as excerpted:

> I did, however test when a package installs two (different) regular
> files into paths that end up symlinked, and found that portage does
> break in that case (as the only sensible option at that point is to
> fail, as something will be lost in either case).

Indeed, and good point.

I guess at that point it's basically a pkg-collision, except that it's in 
a single package instead of two different packages.  Too bad a package 
can't block itself and thus handle it the way different packages blocking 
each other handle that case! =;^)

That's why symlinking both lib64 and lib32 to lib isn't a particularly 
good idea! =;^)

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