From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32EED139694 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 01:02:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F16DBE0C5C; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 01:02:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0179E0BE9 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2017 01:02:25 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0CjCwAudYJZ/1APr7hdGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBg1pEgQ0niQGGAI8TAYFtLwGXcoVBBAIChDREFAECAQEBAQEBAWsohRkBBTocMwsYCRMSDwUlNxuKFK9mi04ygyiCVHqFCoU/gneCMQEEn3wCgiqRc4s0GocDSJNvgUQ2IYEKgQQIh38kNol/AQEB X-IPAS-Result: A0CjCwAudYJZ/1APr7hdGgEBAQECAQEBAQgBAQEBg1pEgQ0niQGGAI8TAYFtLwGXcoVBBAIChDREFAECAQEBAQEBAWsohRkBBTocMwsYCRMSDwUlNxuKFK9mi04ygyiCVHqFCoU/gneCMQEEn3wCgiqRc4s0GocDSJNvgUQ2IYEKgQQIh38kNol/AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.41,314,1498536000"; d="scan'208";a="325099729" Received: from 184-175-15-80.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([184.175.15.80]) by smtp.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 02 Aug 2017 21:02:24 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 02 Aug 2017 21:02:22 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 21:02:22 -0400 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New SYMLINK_LIB=no migration tool for review Message-ID: <20170803010221.GA14536@waltdnes.org> References: <1501689535.795.1.camel@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) X-Archives-Salt: 4f1395cd-924d-4a0c-bd0d-a3150aeabba8 X-Archives-Hash: 46c61551c2b68e5409707fe96c33f050 On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:25:01PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > > Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Martin Vaeth wrote: > >>> If this already was discussed then sorry for the noise: > >>> > >>> What is the rationale for merging lib32 with lib? > >>> Wouldn't it be somewhat cleaner to have a completely > >>> split structure > >>> > >>> lib64 > >>> lib32 > >>> libx32 (possibly) > >>> lib > >> > >> Here are a couple of reasons: > >> > >> 1. Other distros (notably Red Hat and Fedora) put 32-bit libs in "lib". > > > > According to bug 506276, Debian has instead merged 64-bit to lib. > > So it seems to me that there is no "mainstream" to follow. > > Perhaps striving for the cleanest solution would be the best? > > Debian puts 64-bit libs in /lib/(host), where (host) is something like > x86_64-linux-gnu. They don't get put in /lib directly. They call this > "multiarch". > > Migrating Gentoo to a "multiarch" config is a larger project. And what happens when 128-bit cpus debut? /lib128? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications