[R-sig-Debian] Doubled packages in Debian testing amd64

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 27 February 2010 at 21:36, Petar Milin wrote:
| Hello!
| I just installed Debian testing amd64, and the fresh R (r-base and 
| r-base-dev). However, when I installed packages that I use, I realized 
| that some of them are settled in two palaces: lib and lib64. Why is 
| that? Is it fine? I hesitate to run my old line for getting rid of 
| duplicates:
| remove.packages(installed.packages()[duplicated(rownames(installed.packages())),1],lib=.libPaths()[.libPaths() 
| != .Library])
| I sense that this duplicates might be for some reason (64-bits and 32-bits).

edd at max:/usr$ ls -l
total 216
[...]
drwxr-xr-x 224 root root 69632 2010-02-25 06:40 lib
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 2009-10-31 16:13 lib32
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     3 2009-10-07 22:04 lib64 -> lib
[...]
edd at max:/usr$

Dirk

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