Preparing for a point release

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue Dec 19 04:53:25 UTC 2017


Gary said:
> Well, in Gentoo, you are never supposed to directly access /usr/lib64. You
> are only supposed to access /usr/lib which is a link to lib32 or lib64,
> which ever is in current use.

On this Fedora box, /usr/lib/ and /usr/lib64/ are different directories.  
/usr/lib64/ is much bigger.
There is also /usr/libexec/

I thought the idea was that most stuff went into usr and only the 32 or 64 
bit specific stuff went into lib32 or lib64.  I don't know where I picked 
that up.


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