* Steinar H. Gunderson (sgunderson@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:44:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > (Personally, if I'd designed it, the libraries would actually live in > > /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64, and /usr/lib would be a symlink to whichever > > you needed it to be at the moment. Likewise for /usr/bin.) > > Actually, there have been plans for doing something like this in Debian for a > while: Let stuff live in /lib/i686-linux-gnu and /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu > (lib32 and lib64 doesn't really scale, once you start considering stuff like > "ia64 can emulate hppa"), and adjust paths and symlinks as fit. It's still a > long way to go, though. The general feeling is that there won't be support for multiple versions of a given binary being installed at once though. The proposal Steinar mentioned is called 'multiarch' and is being discussed with LSB and other distros too, though I think it did mostly originated with Debian folks. Just my 2c. Thanks, Stephen
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