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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:22:22
Message-Id: 201109061721.40693.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec by William Hubbs
1 On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 14:46:06 William Hubbs wrote:
2 > we just got the following bug report for openrc today [1].
3 >
4 > On a gentoo 64 bit system, /lib is a symbolic link to /lib64, and this
5 > causes breakage in openrc.
6
7 that specific report sounds like using /run would fix things ?
8
9 as for the paths, openrc should be using the paths it installs into. so if
10 we're installing into /lib64/rc..., then that's what we should be using.
11
12 > The simplest fix for this would be for us to add /libexec to baselayout
13 > and start using it for platform-agnostic code. We have /usr/libexec, so
14 > I don't know why we don't have /libexec. Should we?
15
16 same answer as last time people have asked about /libexec: no. we dont need
17 it, and it's ugly cruft that no other distro ive seen uses, and this isnt
18 something we need to differentiate Gentoo.
19 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: using /libexec William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>