Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 08:33 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> * Neil Williams >> >> | Just a thought - why use /usr/lib/$ARCH and /usr/include/$ARCH at all >> | when it would (IMHO) be simpler to use /usr/$TRIPLET/ and put the entire >> | package under

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-07 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:44 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:03:05AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> >> So if we allow multiple packages to be installed at the same time whic

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Neil Williams (Please respect my Mail-Followup-To and my Mail-Copies-To: never) | On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 08:33 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > How would you then handle libraries that go in /lib? (Apart from the | > fact that I think just using a subdirectory of /usr/lib is much neater | >

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 08:33 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Neil Williams > > | Just a thought - why use /usr/lib/$ARCH and /usr/include/$ARCH at all > | when it would (IMHO) be simpler to use /usr/$TRIPLET/ and put the entire > | package under that, as we do with dpkg-cross currently: > > How

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Neil Williams | Just a thought - why use /usr/lib/$ARCH and /usr/include/$ARCH at all | when it would (IMHO) be simpler to use /usr/$TRIPLET/ and put the entire | package under that, as we do with dpkg-cross currently: How would you then handle libraries that go in /lib? (Apart from the fact

Re: Multiarch and idea for improved diversions and alternatives handling

2008-07-03 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:44 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:03:05AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> So if we allow multiple packages to be installed at the same time which > >> divert the same file, then I think we have