Re: seeking resolution to issues I have raised
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:38:53PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> So - reassigning the lintian bug about this to policy.
>
> Am I right in taking from the above that /usr/${arch} is essentially a
> miniature mirror of the /usr filesystem? They certainly seem to have
> similar structures. Thus, /usr/lib/${arch} or /usr/${arch}/lib or
> whatever seems incorrect, and something at the same level as /usr/local
> makes sense.
>
> I propose that we should override the FHS on this one. This is exactly
> the reason we maintain the flexibility to do so.
>
My reading of the FHS yielded no good answer here. They seem to ignore it
completely. Personally I do not care where it ends up, as long as we define
a place where all cross-compiler items belong.
Simply codifying current practice seems the best bet.
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