Placement of 64-bit libraries (offtopic)

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:44:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> (Personally, if I'd designed it, the libraries would actually live in
> /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64, and /usr/lib would be a symlink to whichever
> you needed it to be at the moment.  Likewise for /usr/bin.)

Actually, there have been plans for doing something like this in Debian for a
while: Let stuff live in /lib/i686-linux-gnu and /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
(lib32 and lib64 doesn't really scale, once you start considering stuff like
"ia64 can emulate hppa"), and adjust paths and symlinks as fit. It's still a
long way to go, though.

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