The scheme in Solaris/OpenSolaris is to install 64 bit libs into "64" 
directories which make the possibility of a single package with both 
32/64 bit versions of a library or binary.

The question is: when we build a package, should we attempt to build 
both 32 and 64 bit into the same package or should we do some ugly 
things like adding -64 to 64-bit packages?

I vote for keeping both versions in the same package which raises an 
important question regarding upload policy: do we enforce that 64 bit 
versions of libraries exist when a package contains 32 bit libs? If we 
don't and a previous version of a package had 64 bit libs and a newer 
one does not, installing the new version could badly break the system. 
On the other hand, there may be things that do not compile cleanly under 
64 bit.

Erast: are there any instances of 32 bit only binaries/libraries in the 
SUNW* packages?

Thanks,
-Tim
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