> I was wondering about rpath as well. I maintain a couple > packages that drop 5 function libs for regina-rexx in /usr/lib. > There are probably another 6-8 that someone might package. > /usr/lib could soon be as bad as /var/lib/dpkg/info. You can > pretty much go for coffee on your first 'dpkg -S'. > > I modified regina to use rpath and stuck the function libs in > a subdirectory. This seems to work well with no negative side > effects that I can see. Anyone know what the potential problems > are with this?
Another thing you could do is to stuck the libs in a subdirectory and have your postinst and postrm edit /etc/ld.so.conf. That sounds like the traditional way to me, but then that was before rpath... If rpath is not evil, then maybe lintian shouldn't warn about it? YA
