From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I9S9F-000519-0q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:53:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6DKpuqp013593; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:51:56 GMT Received: from apollo.fprintf.net (apollo.fprintf.net [208.75.87.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6DKptM4013570 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:51:55 GMT Received: (qmail 15422 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2007 20:51:54 -0000 Received: from aa-gw.nexthop.com (HELO ?10.68.253.168?) (dang@fprintf.net@65.247.36.242) by apollo.fprintf.net with ESMTPA; 13 Jul 2007 20:51:54 -0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Files installed to /lib or /usr/lib? From: Daniel Gryniewicz To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:52:08 -0400 Message-Id: <1184359928.22061.101.camel@athena.fprintf.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.11.5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l6DKpuro013593 X-Archives-Salt: f1ae87f4-baaa-4cb1-a765-054c23675489 X-Archives-Hash: 56244638b2e0676caa8b8c6149b8a1ea On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:01 +0200, Sven K=C3=B6hler wrote: > Hi, >=20 > what's the current way of dealing with the folders /lib and /usr/lib > which are symlinks to /lib64 or /usr/lib64 on amd64 systems? >=20 > Here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D185126#c3 > one of the gentoo devs (Jakub) thought, that paths like /usr/lib > shouldn't be hardcoded. Hmm - to me, this statement only makes sense, i= f > ebuilds installing files to /lib or /usr/lib are actually disliked. >=20 > But actually, very fundamental stuff like udev, grub-static, etc. > still install there files to /lib or /usr/lib instead of /lib64 or > /usr/lib64. >=20 > So should these packages be fixed? > Or is it intentional or at least legal, that they install files to /lib > or /usr/lib on amd64? >=20 binary libraries should not be installed to /usr/lib or /lib (and will fail multilib-strict checks, if they are). Anything else, such as python files or text files, can be installed in /usr/lib and /lib. Daniel --=20 gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list