On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 13:46:06 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> we just got the following bug report for openrc today [1].
> 
> On a gentoo 64 bit system, /lib is a symbolic link to /lib64, and this
> causes breakage in openrc.
> 
> The simplest fix for this would be for us to add /libexec to
> baselayout and start using it for platform-agnostic code. We
> have /usr/libexec, so I don't know why we don't have /libexec. Should
> we?

We don't have it because we usually don't want to introduce additional
directories in rootfs. Honestly, I'd rather see all stuff go to /usr
than introducing /libexec.

Other solution is finally to migrate to a multilib solution with no
symlinks.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny