On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 01:33:37PM +0200, Simone Caronni wrote: > might I ask the reasoning behind this? I found the current RHEL/Fedora > approach much better. Debian (since 7?) has settled on using subdirectories of /usr/lib for different architectures. See: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch It supports more than just "64 bit or not", such as different kernels, different endianness, and different instruction set extensions. There's a link which explains better than I can why they did it: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/TheCaseForMultiarch The reason I specifically said: On 22 May 2013 23:18, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (10) Get rid of multilib, /usr/lib64 etc and copy what Debian/Ubuntu > are doing. is that Debian and derivatives are more popular than Fedora and the Linux community ought to settle on one way of doing this, which just by virtue of popularity and completeness of the proposal means doing it the Debian way in this case. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
