Re: Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:59:26PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > For the root-system binaries, there is of course the option to link with
> > RPATH set. However, I believe that the Policy actually forbids this.
> I see no reason why policy should forbid rpath's for that case.
For the standard reason that rpath is bad: it breaks when library paths
change, as will hopefully happen soon with multiarch. :)
> What we don't want is an rpath for "/usr/lib". But an rpath
> for "/usr/lib/root" would be the right thing to do for
> libraries/binaries from the root system.
Yes, it's the least-bad option in this case, in spite of the knock-on
problems.
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