Cardenas wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:57:04PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: [...] >>what would go wrong unless one does the right thing.) In this particular case, >>it might be interesting to know what the advantage of a subdirectory for each >>udeb library over a /usr/lib/udeblib is. > take the example of glib. if you have special compile options for > glib in d-i, then you create a library with a different soname, and > different abi, but the same filename as the standard glib thats on > your machine. in order to link a d-i module against that glib, you > would have to have the glib-udeb version of the library on your > system. you wouldn't want to remove your standard glib, right? so, to > have both installed, you should use a subdir of /usr/lib. Yes, I see why they cannot be in /usr/lib, but what's the rationale to seperate the udeb libraries amongst each other rather than throw all d-i libs in one directory? (Yes, I admit that I don't need to know for doing anything, but it'll still is a question that made me think.) Cheers Thomas
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