On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:01 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > what's the current way of dealing with the folders /lib and /usr/lib > which are symlinks to /lib64 or /usr/lib64 on amd64 systems? > > Here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185126#c3 > one of the gentoo devs (Jakub) thought, that paths like /usr/lib > shouldn't be hardcoded. Hmm - to me, this statement only makes sense, if > ebuilds installing files to /lib or /usr/lib are actually disliked. > > But actually, very fundamental stuff like udev, grub-static, etc. > still install there files to /lib or /usr/lib instead of /lib64 or > /usr/lib64. > > So should these packages be fixed? > Or is it intentional or at least legal, that they install files to /lib > or /usr/lib on amd64? >
binary libraries should not be installed to /usr/lib or /lib (and will fail multilib-strict checks, if they are). Anything else, such as python files or text files, can be installed in /usr/lib and /lib. Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
