Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse@(protected):

>>> I didn't realise that it actually affected what files from within RPMs got
>>> installed - I thought it just didn't install certain packages... I was
>>> wrong :p
>>
>> No, I think I had the manpages and such installed. Wierd that the file
>> clash never showed up for me.
>
> Which arch ? We did had an evil patch in rpm that silenced conflict for
> documentation files, but did not work equally between 32 and 64 bits.

the patch has been "simplified". Currently the behaviour is:

      ignore file conflicts for files in /usr/share/man,
      /usr/share/gtk-doc/html, /usr/share/gnome/html

so you should never get a file conflict from rpm on those files.

(so patch is less "evil" than before, because it allows file conflicts
both in different transactions and in same transaction, whereas
precedent patch allowed only file conflicts in different transactions)

anyway, even if it works, fixing those conflicts is good