[FHS] helper scripts location

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jun 14 18:35:35 UTC 2011


Lennart Poettering (mzerqung at 0pointer.de) said: 
> > I thinkLennart is saying that on a 64 bit system they would have to go
> > to /usr/lib32
> 
> No, there is no /usr/lib32.

Correct. /usr/lib is 32-bit libraries, /usr/lib64 is 64-bit libraries. (*)

My objection to putting 64-bit helper binaries in /usr/lib/<app> would
merely be the problems with configuration that that may imply; such a
change may not be transparent to packages. 

Bill

(*) We are ignoring Itanium and Alpha for this conversation, because,
well...


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