On 07/28/2011 01:41 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 07/28/2011 07:53 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: >> On 07/28/2011 12:46 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > >>> This is a good point. Especially when you start on a 64 bit box and >>> login to a 32 bit (or other arch) - bin now makes now sense at all. You >>> need arch specific bins (bin, bin64 etc). >> >> Currently Fedora only separates out the /lib* directories in multilib >> installations - you'll find a mix of 32 and 64 bit binaries in the system binary >> paths on these systems. >> > > which is fine for a 'system' which is 64 bit and may support 32 bit as > well - its not fine for a 'user' who logs in to a 32 bit machine from a > 64 bit machine and now his binaries wont work. Separating bin paths like this would not solve the problem; anything that's only present in one path or the other would still fail in the scenario you suggest. You could equally install foo/foo64 or vice versa into the same directory. Regards, Bryn. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
