On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:10:41AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 02:23 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If there's > > consensus that putting this stuff in /usr/lib32 on amd64 is prettier than > > /emul/ia32-linux, I see no reason not to move forward. > My sense is that the "concensus" that exists is around FHS compliance. > While I personally consider /usr/lib32 pretty ugly, I am sensitive to > the fact that we have always tried to be FHS compliant in Debian. /lib64 and /lib32 : 64/32-bit libraries (architecture dependent) The 64-bit architectures PPC64, s390x, sparc64 and AMD64 must place 64-bit libraries in /lib64, and 32-bit (or 31-bit on s390) libraries in /lib. The 64-bit architecture IA64 must place 64-bit libraries in /lib. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#LIB64 So there really is no way to comply with the current FHS on amd64 without some serious package special-casing. That makes /emul/ia32-linux vs. /usr/lib32 entirely a question of aesthetics, not standards-compliance. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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