Re: [ruby] multilib and noarch

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

David Lutterkort (dlutter redhat com) said: 
> Would it be possible to install everything that's in /usr/lib/ruby now
> into /usr/share/ruby ? That would include DSO's with ruby bindings, but
> ruby won't get confused if you have DSO's for more than one arch in
> there since it keeps them in arch-specific subdirectories. I am very
> reluctant to pluck the /usr/lib/ruby hierarchy apart since Fedora would
> be the only ones doing that, and I am very concerned that there are
> quite a few assumptions about that hierarchy in the code.

/usr/share is supposed to be architecture independent, so I wouldn't
put DSOs there even if Ruby could tell them apart.

> What's the reason that perl and python both go into /usr/lib ? Is this
> just historical or is there a deeper reason for that ?

Historical, and there are DSO portions.

Bill