libexo, Paths on amd64

Benedikt Meurer benny at xfce.org
Tue Nov 1 22:08:14 CET 2005


Bernhard Walle wrote:
>>>Hi, is there a reason for installing pyexo.py, pyexo.pyc and pyexo.pyo
>>>into /usr/lib/ instead of /usr/lib64/?
>>>I use a conary (http://wiki.conary.com)based Linux Distribution and
>>>conary prevents packages from installing into /usr/lib and/usr/lib64 at
>>>the same time (it even prevents me from building such packages).
>>>Just for illustration of my problem I add the output from conary.
>>>So if there is no reason for using /usr/lib/ on x86_64 it would be nice
>>>if you can change the paths for 0.4.
>>
>>I dunno why people prefer to complicate things using lib64 AND lib, 
>>rather than using a simple compat directory for 32bit binary 
>>compatibility. But whatever...
> 
> Because 32 bit binary RPMs (or DEB or whatever) install unmodified.

Sure, no problem there.

> Regards,
>   Bernhard

Benedikt
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