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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: williamh@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:20:59
Message-Id: 20110906212038.05434cc0@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec by William Hubbs
1 On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:46:06 -0500
2 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > we just got the following bug report for openrc today [1].
5 >
6 > On a gentoo 64 bit system, /lib is a symbolic link to /lib64, and this
7 > causes breakage in openrc.
8 >
9 > The simplest fix for this would be for us to add /libexec to
10 > baselayout and start using it for platform-agnostic code. We
11 > have /usr/libexec, so I don't know why we don't have /libexec. Should
12 > we?
13
14 We don't have it because we usually don't want to introduce additional
15 directories in rootfs. Honestly, I'd rather see all stuff go to /usr
16 than introducing /libexec.
17
18 Other solution is finally to migrate to a multilib solution with no
19 symlinks.
20
21 --
22 Best regards,
23 Michał Górny

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