[FHS] helper scripts location

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jun 13 17:44:58 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 08:43:46AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:41 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 02:18:18PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > What is the benefit of a separate libexecdir?
> > 
> > I guess because binaries shouldn't go in the library directory.
> > 
> > Now if you wanted to get rid of the {,/usr}/lib64 nonsense, *that*'s
> > something we can all get behind ...
> 
> How would you handle multilib and how would you transition stuff ?

Shooting multilib in the head and just using 64 bit everywhere?

The only reason to have support for 32 bit is because of closed source
software, and I don't have any of that on all but two of my (dozens of)
machines.

Rich.

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