On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 07:52 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > This recommendation needs to be elminated entirely. It is *not* ok for > packages that provide libraries to stick extra linker paths in the global > configuration, whether by modifying ld.so.conf or by adding to > /etc/ld.so.conf.d. Either the libraries provided by the packages are meant > to be public, in which case they should be installed to the standard library > path instead of needlessly adding another directory that's going to be > globally visible anyway; or they should not, and the cooperating packages > should use rpath instead.
The X libraries used to modify /etc/ld.so.conf, but thankfully that's long gone now :) Seconded. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
