Re: Bug#259302: base-files: Support for amd64. (fwd)
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Santiago Vila (sanvila@unex.es) wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hmm, I can understand this, and agree with it.
>
>> 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.
>
> This would certainly be reasonable, imv. I don't have any problem w/
> this compramise.
>
> Stephen
It would mean we have one workaround in two packages. And if we ever
want to change it a new X upload would be needed, which is rather
ugly.
I opt for keeping all 3 links in one package for simplicity even if
the third one doesn't realy belong there.
MfG
Goswin
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