Base Directory Specification and plugins

Lennart Poettering mzkqt at 0pointer.de
Tue Nov 23 11:50:53 PST 2010


On Tue, 23.11.10 13:42, Ryan Lortie (desrt at desrt.ca) wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > On 11/22/10 5:31 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > So, I'd suggest mirroring those and using ~/.lib/CPU-[KERNEL-]OS/myapp/*.so.
> 
> With only slight hesitation due to fears of political correctness, I'd
> suggest using Debian arch names here.  They tend to be an awful lot more
> sane for this purpose.

Why not use utsname.sysname[] plus utsname.machine[]? i.e. the output of
uname -sm:

    $ uname -sm
    Linux x86_64

Lennart

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