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[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57 AT fastmail.fm>]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:30:19 +0200 (CEST)
Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie AT codemages.net> wrote:

> > Sounds good for future updates. This means we have an upgrade issue
> > though, as going from split spells to combined spell broke due to this
> > dependency cycle. This needs to be resolved before it can go to test
> > grimoire.
> 
> Another issue I would like to stuff someplace is /lib64
> 
> Do we really need to bother with supporting both instead of just putting
> things into /lib and be done with.
> 
> This would reduce the need to handle specs files in the gcc spell.
> Considering we overwrite this everywhere else we should do it for the
> loader as well:
> 
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 to /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> 
> And be done with it.

I don't know if this comment is worth anything, but on my purely 64-bit 
system I've only ever needed /lib64 for a single binary application, and then 
only as a symlink.

-- 
Ethan Grammatikidis

Those who are slower at parsing information must
necessarily be faster at problem-solving.