On 23 May 2013 14:58, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
Thanks for the links.
I'm not the best person to judge, but it looks overcomplicated to me. For sure existing commercial binary packages shipped in RPM format will have a lot of problems.
I'm not the best person to judge, but it looks overcomplicated to me. For sure existing commercial binary packages shipped in RPM format will have a lot of problems.
Thanks,
--Simone
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