On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:25:01PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Martin Vaeth <mar...@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.
And what happens when 128-bit cpus debut? /lib128? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
