[F8/multilib] {,/usr}/{,s}bin64 (was: Split libperl from perl)

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Fri Apr 27 14:55:17 UTC 2007


On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:50:10PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 
> ... by introducing the abomination of bin64? Over my dead body. This is
> wrong, breaks all kinds of things and confuses not only users, but
> administrators as well. If you want to do multiarching, go the
> gentoo/debian way and use a chroot.

Although I don't like bin64, I'd prefer bin32, it seems to me that the
current multilib handling is quite confusing. It seems to me that having 
a directory per arch is less confusing than having both arches binaries
in bin. lib64 and lib is confusing then too? doing a chroot is possible,
but here the objective is to have both in the same root, which is an
interesting goal. Having a root for each arch is much easier to achieve,
but also less interesting.

--
Pat




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