lib or lib64?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 16 February 2013, Valentin Rusu wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2013 21:52:31 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Friday 15 February 2013, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> > > How can I force everything into one place?
> > 
> > If you pull a fresh kdelibs, it should now also go into lib64/.
> > Let me know if it doesn't.
> 
> Well, I think that other packagers/distributions tend to put libraries
> corresponding to the CPU architecture in lib. For exemple, my 64bit
> archlinux has 64bit libraries in lib and 32bit libraries in lib32. lib64
> is a symlink to lib. Wouldn't it be simpler to just install libraries to
> lib instead of lib64? This would be more consistent over time, in my
> opinion.


So ArchLinux has /lib64 and /lib32 (or /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib32 ?) and /lib 
(and /usr/lib ?) are symlinks to one of the two ?

Alex