Re: [Fedora-packaging] Multiple file ownership allowed nowadays?

Kalev Lember (kalevlember@gmail.com) said:

On 01/30/2012 03:04 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:

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My package gtkhash can now build both against gtk2 and gtk3. I am about to package the two versions as gtkhash and gtkhash3, but both packages would share one file, /usr/share/gtkhash/gtkhash.xml.

The question about multiple file ownership is interesting and certainly useful for people who want to ship parallel installable gtk2 and gtk3 versions of a library, but ...

... gtkhash is an application. Why would an user want two copies of the same app, compiled against different versions of GTK+?

We wouldn't. Although we have apps that build separate GTK and QT frontends, so I suppose there's some precedence. But it's still a bad idea.

Bill