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

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 04/24/2011 10:43 PM, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> Getting that discussion back on top.
>> 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.

Right, doesn't make sense to have both 32bit and 64bit ELF's for udev,
so we should stick with /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?

Correct.



The udev situation is really a mess tree-wide, we have ebuilds
installing into 3 different directories now:

/etc/udev              (where user puts his local rules)
/$(get_libdir)/udev    (as explained above)
/lib/udev              (the correct one)

Check the Portage to see the sad status of inconsistency:

$ grep -r 'etc.*udev' */*/*.ebuild
$ grep -r 'get_libdir.*udev' */*/*.ebuild