[FHS] helper scripts location

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Jun 13 17:25:37 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 05:36:00PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> That is not really how it is. /lib is for arch-dependent stuff including
> the libraries of the primary arch. Libraries for secondary archs are
> then put in /usr/lib{64,arch}/.
> 
> Gentoo is the only distro which is so confused to put binaries that
> belong into /usr/lib into /usr/lib64 just because they are compiled for
> 64bit. But that's just because they are confused.

Errr, what?

Fedora has the same "confusion".

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences


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