[sergey] > It is a good reason to think about Debian's (or GNU/Linux) usability and > ways to increase it. > > It all was about installing software system-wide by administrator.
Well, putting /usr/local/lib in the default library search path, and upstream software using /usr/local/lib by default, are no coincidence. The point is that if you build a binary on your own, and it needs to use a library you also built on your own, it is quite nice that you don't have to provide an explicit library search path (RPATH inside the binary, or LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable at runtime). Unfortunately (from your perspective) there is not a way to configure a default library search path differently for binaries in different places. So if you want /usr/local/bin binaries to see /usr/local/lib by default (that's what Debian and other Linux systems do, on purpose), then all your system binaries will see them too. Anyway, it's not a bug or even really a design flaw (IMO). -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110227230431.ge10...@p12n.org
