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    SubjectRe: Pure 64 bootloaders
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    Hi.

    >>Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com> writes:
    >>
    >>>I have been working on a project to create a Pure 64 bit distro of
    >>>linux, nothing 32 bit in the system. I can accomplish that with no
    >>
    >>Hopefully you're using /lib64 for that, otherwise your
    >>packages will be incompatible to everybody else and not
    >>FHS compliant. If you don't please don't submit any
    >>patches to hardcode this to upstream packages.
    >
    >
    > /lib64 sucks, as mentioned, and I thought FHS only required that the
    > linker be in /lib64. Thus, the actual libraries could be pretty much
    > anywhere (as it should be, really). Debian-amd64 uses a symlink from
    > /lib64 to /lib and provides the 64bit libraries and linker in /lib (but
    > when actually compiling does link binaries through /lib64 for FHS
    > compliance).
    >
    > Hopefully /lib64, et al, will die and multiarch will happen soon.

    How exactly would multiarch support work then?

    // Stefan
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