I've filled a bug at https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8345
. Please comment if I missed something.

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Nikolay Orlyuk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'd like to pickup discussion on this topic.
> Currently ::mono repository of Exherbo places all architecture-independent
> libraries under the $libdir (/usr/lib or /usr/lib64).
> I agree with answer to the bug report
> https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3650.
>
> According to description from
> http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Installation-Directory-Variables
> :
> datadir:The directory for installing idiosyncratic read-only
> architecture-independent data.
> libdir:The directory for installing object code libraries.
> libexecdir: The directory for installing executables that other programs
> run.
>
> From my point of view most suitable place among these is $datadir. And if
> you'll look at the ::java repository you'll see that most of libraries puts
> their jars under /usr/share folder. So I'd like to see ::mono follow the
> same approach.
>
> I suspect that if we'll ask upstream for libdir patches with $libdir (set to
> $prefix/lib) replaced by $datadir they will accept that (at least answer
> should be different :) ).
>
> P.S. This mail initiated by need to write another (there is a lot of them
> over this repo) libdir patch for ::mono package.
>
> Cheers
>

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