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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: zzam@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: libexec directory inconsistency
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:39:08
Message-Id: 20110426083837.6f48f600@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: libexec directory inconsistency by Matthias Schwarzott
1 On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:38:13 +0200
2 Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sonntag, 24. April 2011, Michał Górny wrote:
5 > > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:43:16 +0200
6 > >
7 > > Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@g.o> wrote:
8 > > > Sounds like we should fix udev ebuild and some ebuilds installing
9 > > > udev rules to not use /$(get_libdir)/udev, but plain /lib/udev.
10 > > >
11 > > > I used that in believe that /lib is identical or links
12 > > > to /$(get_libdir) and multilib-strict requires it, but it seems
13 > > > to be intelligent enough to only deny 64-bit libs to go to /lib.
14 > > >
15 > > > So proper udev should use /lib/udev, correct?
16 > >
17 > > Do you really think it'd be fine for some systems to possibly
18 > > have /lib64 and /lib with random different contents?
19 >
20 > Well I was always under the impression that /lib64 and /lib did point
21 > to the same directory.
22 > Is the case where /lib is no symlink to /lib64 so frequent?
23
24 Sorry for replying that late.
25
26 The 'main' multilib profile was switched to have 64-bit libs in lib64
27 and 32-bit ones in lib lately. I'm not sure if it used by any real
28 profile though.
29
30 And I think that non-multlib amd64 has lib64 only.
31
32 --
33 Best regards,
34 Michał Górny

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