From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New SYMLINK_LIB=no migration tool for review
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:25:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP42jZo8-GzkWuGj-55P1Yg-6Yfu3QE8MqRaX=mQzwA_etw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnoo48o9.oeq.martin@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de>
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> wrote:
> Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-02 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-02 15:58 [gentoo-dev] New SYMLINK_LIB=no migration tool for review Michał Górny
2017-08-02 17:51 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
2017-08-02 18:10 ` Mike Gilbert
2017-08-02 19:07 ` Martin Vaeth
2017-08-02 19:25 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2017-08-03 1:02 ` Walter Dnes
2017-08-03 2:09 ` Benda Xu
2017-08-03 6:55 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-03 7:23 ` Martin Vaeth
2017-08-03 7:50 ` Martin Vaeth
2017-08-03 7:57 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-03 14:30 ` Martin Vaeth
2017-08-02 19:44 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-02 18:10 ` Holger Hoffstätte
2017-08-11 23:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Gerogy Yakovlev
2017-08-12 7:12 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-12 21:33 ` Michał Górny
2017-08-19 22:25 ` Georgy Yakovlev
2017-08-19 22:50 ` Michał Górny
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