On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:17:26 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > There could also be > > 3) No one gets /bin, /lib directly, everything gets bult into > bin32/bin64 etc. and bin and lib are set as follows (symlinks) > > i386: bin -> bin32, lib -> lib32 > x86_64: bin -> bin64, lib -> lib64 > ppc: bin -> bin32, lib -> lib32 > ... > > That would give you proper symmetry, reusable packages from one > arch onto another (e.g. not packaging extra i386 packages for > x86_64), and bin/lib would always point to the native components. Another type of thing that worries me with this schema: $ rpm -qf /bin/ls file /bin/ls is not owned by any package In short: you are throwing a whole lot of typical assumptions about a Unix/Linux system out the window... and my gut feeling is that they'll come back haunting us in various unpleasant ways for a long time. C -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
