On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:41 -0400, 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. Really, sharing of $HOME can (and does) happen among much *more* disparate architectures than x86 and x86_64. We don't have to think about this as much these days now that MIPS and SPARC have waned in popularity; but the idea that we might start seeing a lot more consumer-oriented ARM devices running Linux isn't exactly far-fetched. I typically use ~/`config.guess`/bin. As it stands, ~/bin and ~/.local/bin are only appropriate for binaries that are not arch-specific. Any "standard" that doesn't take that into account needs some improvement. -- Braden McDaniel <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
