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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: multilib-strict no longer in FEATURES of targets/developer/make.defaults (pending on bug 424423)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:07:29
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41=ttN0c_OEzfAsyiSrGYfNF1G_rME=yCfqwsk+Qw82Kg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: multilib-strict no longer in FEATURES of targets/developer/make.defaults (pending on bug 424423) by Alexandre Rostovtsev
1 On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev
2 <tetromino@g.o> wrote:
3 > On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 11:14 -0700, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
4 >> Beside the fact that these would probably have looked better in
5 >> /usr/libexec
6 >
7 > See Kay Sievers's comment at
8 > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51617 :
9 >
10 > "/usr/lib/<pkgname>/ is a directory like /usr/libexec/ or even /bin. It
11 > shares absolutely zero things with the arch-specific $libdir ,or lib64/.
12 >
13 > /usr/lib/<pkgname>/ is the canonical "application private directory". It
14 > has the multi-lib or arch-specific rules as /bin.
15 >
16
17 So... where should GRUB2 be installing its modules? Currently they get
18 installed in /usr/$(get_libdir)/grub/$cpu-$platform, where cpu and
19 platform are determined by use flags.
20
21 Should we drop the get_libdir and put them in /usr/lib/grub instead?
22 Should I even worry about it?

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