[FHS] helper scripts location

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Tue Jun 14 08:52:30 UTC 2011


On Mon, 13.06.11 13:25, Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) wrote:

> 
> 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".

No. For example: on Fedora the udev private binaries are in /lib/udev/
(where they belong). Gentoo is confused and puts them in /lib64/udev/
instead (which is broken).

Lennart

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