Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: libexec directory inconsistency

[Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>]

Getting that discussion back on top.

On Samstag, 22. Januar 2011, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 22/01/2011 alle 11.02 -0600, William Hubbs ha scritto:
> > Is there a reason for this? If not, would it break things if we start
> > using /libexec as well as /usr/libexec?
> 
> More or less and yes, it would create one more root directory that has
> no real usage to be there anyway...
> 
> > I noticed that for dhcpcd and openrc we force their LIBEXECDIR to be
> > $(get_libdir)/foo, which puts things in different directories
> > depending on whether the system is multilib or not.
> 
> Which is wrong, it should be /lib/foo instead, not $(get_libdir), to
> follow what udev and other software in Linux has been using for a very
> long time now.

Sounds like we should fix udev ebuild and some ebuilds installing udev rules to 
not use /$(get_libdir)/udev, but plain /lib/udev.

I used that in believe that /lib is identical or links to /$(get_libdir) and 
multilib-strict requires it, but it seems to be intelligent enough to only 
deny 64-bit libs to go to /lib.

So proper udev should use /lib/udev, correct?

Matthias