Re: Bug#259302: base-files: Support for amd64. (fwd)
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Again, the usr/X11R6/lib64 and usr/lib64 could be in the 'lsb' package,
> > I think, but, well, personally it seems more appropriate in base-files
> > to me, esp. since the /lib64 symlink must be there.
>
> I don't think its a good idea to spread the 3 links over multiple
> packages. And any package containing the links must be essential.
> Otherwise software that needs the link would have to
> (pre)depend on it, which is unpractical.
The symlinks could be in libc6, which is only essential de facto.
But even if the symlinks are in base-files, it would be odd and ugly
that base-files contains /usr/X11R6/lib64 when it does not even
contain /usr/X11R6/lib in other architectures.
Would not be enough to have /lib64 and /usr/lib64 in base-files
and /usr/X11R6/lib64 in, say, xfree86-common?
Remember that libx11-6 depends on xfree86-common, so the symlink would
be present as soon as you have a single package installe which is
linked against the X libraries.
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