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Re: Why -rpath is so evil [Re: -rpath and policy?]



On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:25:16 +0200, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> said: 

> also sprach Goswin von Brederlow
> <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> [2004.06.15.2058 +0200]:
>> PS: rpath is evil, all avoid rpath :)

> So can we please add that to the policy?

	Policy generally does not say things like "Do not do things
 that are buggy", since then we would have a huge document. Sounds
 like there are clear cut technical reasons _not_ to  use rpath; that
 using rpath breaks things; surely we do not need policy to tell us
 not to break stuff?

	manoj
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