On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:41:40AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 10:40 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >On 11/15/2012 10:20 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> >>On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:03:30AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >>>>I've thought of one technical thing that is lost if we allow this
> >>>>but it
> >>>>may not be that important. Currently a sysadmin could install packages
> >>>>on an x86 and then mount the /usr/lib directory on both x86 and x86_64
> >>>>systems.
> >>>We already allow folks to use /usr/lib/%{name} and %_libexecdir
> >>>interchangeably (don't we?),
> >>
> >>I think that's the question at hand, actually.
> >
> >See
> >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines?rd=Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir
> >
> >
> >not exactly 100% interchangeable ... but already does allow /usr/lib/...
> >in the cases where libexecdir isn't directly supported
>
> oh, I totally misread that, *nevermind*. the guideline says
> %{_libdir}/%{name}
>
Right. And if we decide that this is okay in general we'll probably update
that guideline to allow any of %{_libexedir}, %{_libdir}, or %{_prefix}/lib
to be used.
-Toshio
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