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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>]

Seth,

Isn't lib64 required by LFS? Also, there's always software we can't 
recompile, such as Oracle database or VMWare, that people will need to 
run. To make this work, these links will be needed.
I don't feel good about this approach in general. I don't suffer from 
lib64 links. After the procedure described here [1], Benoit's ISO works 
just fine for me. We have an option to disable multilib build of GCC 
which works great. I and others contributed fixes to make 64-bit spells 
work, and having this link was never an issue. I think *not* having it 
would have been.
Why is having these links such a big deal?
Thanks,

Sergey.

[1] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=AMD64+Status

Seth Alan Woolley wrote:

> I've recently been working on getting the amd64 port to be all in /lib 
> without a /lib64 symlink (and /usr/lib{,64}).  I've succeeded but will 
> have to make it easy for people to convert before I apply the various 
> patches I've written.
>
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