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/Guidelin...
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}
-- rex