On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Thomas Steffen wrote:
The initiative has been taken by other distributions, and I don't see a viable alternative to follow their approach. That means /usr/lib for 32bit libs and /usr/lib64 for the 64bit libs. Yes, it is ugly, but it is close to inevitable.
1) We are not that compatible to begin with
I would prefer architecture neutral file positions very much (/usr/bin/i386 for binaries, /usr/lib/i386 for libraries etc), but I don't see how that can be "compatible" with RedHat/SuSUE.
2) A symlink?