[FHS] helper scripts location

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 07:57:46PM +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> You only getting 32bit libs / apps when you install them so no reason
> to get rid of them and make life harder for those who need them.

Obviously I was being deliberately provocative by my original
statement.

Nevertheless, multilib is a broken hack which imposes a burden on me
as a packager, even though I rarely if ever enjoy the fruits of it.  I
still have to deal with multilib packaging bugs as they come up.

Rich.

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