Why is redhat-artwork multi-lib?

[Matthias Clasen]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> In the rawhide for x86_64 repository:
>
>   redhat-artwork - 5.0.8-4.fc7.i386
>   redhat-artwork - 5.0.8-4.fc7.x86_64
>
> $ rpm -q --provides redhat-artwork
> bluecurve.so  
> config(redhat-artwork) = 5.0.8-1.fc6
> kwin3_bluecurve.so.0  
> libbluecurve.so  
> redhat-artwork = 5.0.8-1.fc6
>
> $ rpm -ql redhat-artwork|wc -l
> 8045
> $ rpm -ql redhat-artwork|grep share|wc -l
> 8024
>
> Why is such a huge data (!) package, which contains over 8000 files in
> /usr/share, merged with the few arch-specific bluecurve libs, so that it
> becomes a multi-lib package?
>
>   
History.
Thats just the way it was initially done, before multilib became an issue.