Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger(a)gmail.com) said:
> Personally, the more i think about it, the more it feels right
and makes
> sense to allow this. In essence, one can consider non-multilib'd
> %_prefix/lib and %_libexecdir content to be equal policy-wise.
I've thought of one technical thing that is lost if we allow this but it
may not be that important. Currently a sysadmin could install packages on
an x86 and then mount the /usr/lib directory on both x86 and x86_64
systems. This is similar to the rationale the FHS uses for splitting
/usr/share/ from %{_libdir}. It isn't in the FHS, though, so we aren't
required to to keep this feature.
This implies sharing /usr/lib separate from /usr/libexec, /usr/bin, and
so on... I think that's pretty far into the fringe of use cases, and not
something we really need to support.
Bill