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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New SYMLINK_LIB=no migration tool for review
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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.