/usr/lib64? Wait what?

Posted Jan 29, 2021 14:22 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: /usr/lib64? Wait what? by mirabilos
Parent article: A year of Python in Fedora

The mention in the article is that it was adopted for Red Hat-based multilib layouts (and all those distros had carried the patch(es) for years). What gives you the idea that it is in any way related to Debian's multiarch layouts?

/usr/lib64? Wait what?

Posted Jan 29, 2021 14:30 UTC (Fri) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> What gives you the idea that it is in any way related to Debian's multiarch layouts?

Well, Miro's post does mention Debian and I reported that:

> Work from both Fedora and openSUSE developers means that those distributions,
> and others such as Gentoo and Debian, can stop carrying a patch that has been
> around for 16 years at this point.

I assume (but have not looked into it) that Debian uses the patch to put the modules in some other directory, not /usr/lib64

jake