Re: [Evms-devel] EVMS: shared libraries with unversioned sonames

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Marcus Brinkmann 

| Sure, evms seems only to be available on GNU/Linux, too.  But just because
| it happens to work by chance it is no excuse to do the wrong thing.  People
| might take it as an example and use it in their own software, where it
| doesn't work (on GNU/Hurd, and other systems).

Then please propose or write a tool which creates the proper symlinks
from the sonames of the libraries and get it included in debianutils
or some other reasonable please.  Until there is a tool which does
that, people will not stop using ldconfig -n, because it works fine
for the platforms most people use.

I know that it doesn't make your life easier, but when Hurd is the odd
one out, you will often have to create tools which work on all
platforms.

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Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.