On Mon, 13.06.11 13:25, Matthew Miller (mattdm(a)mattdm.org) wrote:
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:36:00PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> That is not really how it is. /lib is for arch-dependent stuff including
> the libraries of the primary arch. Libraries for secondary archs are
> then put in /usr/lib{64,arch}/.
>
> Gentoo is the only distro which is so confused to put binaries that
> belong into /usr/lib into /usr/lib64 just because they are compiled for
> 64bit. But that's just because they are confused.
Errr, what?
Fedora has the same "confusion".
No. For example: on Fedora the udev private binaries are in /lib/udev/
(where they belong). Gentoo is confused and puts them in /lib64/udev/
instead (which is broken).
Lennart
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