On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 8:21 PM Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Kalev Lember wrote: > > I would like to have a layout similar to what Debian is doing, so that > > shared libraries would go in /usr/lib/x86_64-redhat-linux/ and /usr/lib64 > > would be a legacy symlink pointing to it. > > That layout is NOT compliant with the FHS. > > Which is particularly hilarious as Debian has long refused to use > /usr/libexec (despite GNU having had it for ages, and Debian's refusal has > in turn lead several upstreams to not or poorly support it and abuse > /usr/lib or other directories for its purpose instead) because it was > purportedly against the FHS (it seems they have never noticed that the > clause that allows lib64 and lib32 does not actually require the suffix to > be a number, "exec" is a perfectly fine suffix, so libexec is just another > lib64/lib32-type directory), but was very fast to add an exception for this > new entirely non-standard layout. (The FHS requires the arch-specific libdir > variants to be suffixed sibling directories of lib, NOT subdirectories.) > Debian adopted /usr/libexec in 2018: https://salsa.debian.org/dbnpolicy/policy/-/commit/5205d0a50465cf422f1040d9395d5ea83dbfde5f -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
