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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 February 2010 at 16:11, Petar Milin wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 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
| >
| >   
| Sorry for my ignorance, but could you elaborate on that, briefly. lib64 
| links to lib?

It means they are the same. A file /usr/lib/foo/bar is identical to
/usr/lib64/foo/bar -- because lib64 is a soft link.  It is a convenient "make
believe" trick

So your observation about 

     [...] that some of them are settled in two palaces: lib and lib64. 
     Why is that? Is it fine? 

is falling victim to this mirage. There is only one file. Hence no problem.

Dirk


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