Re: URGENT [PROPOSAL] V3: lsb lib and lsb loader location (also IA64)

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Doug Beattie wrote:
> IA64 _does_ require one to provide ia32 libs for ia32 binaries to
> execute. The IA64 kernel has been updated to know about and handle
> ia32 apps, but you cannot run ia32 apps without matching ia32 libs on
> an IA64 system.

I am fully aware of that. My point is that I should be able to
take any existing compiled ia32 packages, install it on an ia64
system and run it if all its dependencies are also there. That
should hold for libc, bash, mozilla, etc. I should not be forced
to take an ia32 packages, unpack it in a temporary directory,
move all kinds of paths arounds for libraries and then install it.

The concept of a single-architecture system is getting obsolete,
and imho we should move to /lib/<arch> or /lib-<arch> for
everything that is architecture dependent.

Wichert.

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