* Raul Miller (moth@debian.org) wrote: > This isn't official or anything, but I think that /lib and /lib64 being > symlinks are perfectly adequate. As long as they're not symlinks to > the same place. Yeah, sorry, not gonna be the way it works. They need to be the same place for packages to work w/o modification and to be LSB compliant. > > They would have to be modified to install packages into /lib64 for amd64 > > instead of into /lib like every other arch. > > This only matters for packages which provide libraries. You're talking > a few dozens of packages which might need a fairly trivial patch. Uh.. I could 921 binary packages currently *installed* on my system that would need to be changed.. I've heard counts of at *least* a couple hundred source packages from other people (in case my method of counting was less than perfect for some reason- dpkg -S lib/*.so* usr/lib/*.so*| cut -f1 -d: | sort -u | wc -l ). The change isn't always all that trivial either. Though, regardless, it would be duplicated work since it would have to be done for multiarch again. Stephen
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