On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:25:04AM -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > On multi-arch, e.g. x86_64, we have /usr/lib for 32bit and /usr/lib64 for > 64bit. We should have a place for 32bit and 64bit bins. To be consistent, > 64bit would go in /usr/bin64. This would cause massive problems for all > the apps that expect to look in /usr/bin. Here are 2 proposals: > > 1) 32bit in /usr/bin32, 64bit in /usr/bin64, and /usr/bin->/usr/bin64 > 2) 32bit in /usrbin32, 64bit in /usr/bin First, this is an issue to be discussed within the LSB community, not in the Fedora community. Some more comments (assuming in (2) you meant /usr/bin32): - As you point out yourself, apps expect to look in /usr/bin. So both suggestions cause problems to find apps that are only available in 32-bit format, which is a serious problem. - In case (2), 32-bit packages would have to be built twice: one time for 32-bit systems and one time for 64-bit systems. - The issue with 32-bit apps is in a lot of cases to support third party 32-bit software software on 64-bit systems. Option (1) conflicts with with this and it is important to realize that third party vendors will in most cases not provide two versions of 32-bit packages. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
