On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:41:40AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
On 11/15/2012 10:40 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>On 11/15/2012 10:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:03:30AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>>>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.
>>>We already allow folks to use /usr/lib/%{name} and %_libexecdir
>>>interchangeably (don't we?),
>>
>>I think that's the question at hand, actually.
>
>See
>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines?rd=Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir
>
>
>not exactly 100% interchangeable ... but already does allow /usr/lib/...
>in the cases where libexecdir isn't directly supported
oh, I totally misread that, *nevermind*. the guideline says
%{_libdir}/%{name}
Right. And if we decide that this is okay in general we'll probably update
that guideline to allow any of %{_libexedir}, %{_libdir}, or %{_prefix}/lib
to be used.
-Toshio