* Santiago Vila (sanvila@unex.es) wrote: > I have received the following bug report. Would you please be so kind > to provide some rationale for it? Specifically: Sure. > What are these symlinks for? AMD64 LSB support, in large part. > Exactly what software or package uses them? All packages use the /lib64 -> /lib symlink because the linker location is required by LSB to be /lib64/ld-(somethingorother). > Are they really mandatory or optional? Pretty much mandatory. > What happens if they do not exist? Nothing existing will run, we could recompile everything but then we wouldn't even be AMD64 LSB compliant. > Why do you think base-files should care about these symlinks and not, > for example, libc6 or base-config? Gotta have them to run any programs... > Should these symlinks really be recreated every time the package containing > them is upgraded, or should the user have the freedom to remove them? Uhhh, I don't think it'd be good for them to be removed.. Stephen
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