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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI: multilib-strict no longer in FEATURES of targets/developer/make.defaults (pending on bug 424423)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:56:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP41=ttN0c_OEzfAsyiSrGYfNF1G_rME=yCfqwsk+Qw82Kg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344882542.23246.3.camel@rook>

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Alexandre Rostovtsev
<tetromino@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 11:14 -0700, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
>> Beside the fact that these would probably have looked better in
>> /usr/libexec
>
> See Kay Sievers's comment at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51617 :
>
> "/usr/lib/<pkgname>/ is a directory like /usr/libexec/ or even /bin. It
> shares absolutely zero things with the arch-specific $libdir ,or lib64/.
>
> /usr/lib/<pkgname>/ is the canonical "application private directory". It
> has the multi-lib or arch-specific rules as /bin.
>

So... where should GRUB2 be installing its modules? Currently they get
installed in /usr/$(get_libdir)/grub/$cpu-$platform, where cpu and
platform are determined by use flags.

Should we drop the get_libdir and put them in /usr/lib/grub instead?
Should I even worry about it?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-14  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 16:55 [gentoo-dev] FYI: multilib-strict no longer in FEATURES of targets/developer/make.defaults (pending on bug 424423) Samuli Suominen
2012-08-13 18:14 ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-13 18:29   ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
2012-08-13 21:24     ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-14  9:57       ` Samuli Suominen
2012-08-14 13:35         ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-14 16:57           ` Samuli Suominen
2012-08-14 17:07             ` Samuli Suominen
2012-08-14 17:13             ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2012-08-14 14:05         ` Michał Górny
2012-08-14 17:05           ` Samuli Suominen
2012-08-14 17:05           ` Samuli Suominen
2012-08-13 21:56     ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2012-08-14  0:24       ` Olivier Crête
2012-08-14 10:01         ` Samuli Suominen
2012-08-13 18:25 ` Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
2012-08-14 17:03 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-08-14 17:37   ` Alexis Ballier
2012-08-18  3:43     ` Mike Frysinger

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