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Re: lintian: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath



Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@linpro.no> writes:

> I must object to that.  rpath is your friend whenever you lack write
> access to the system library directories, ie. when you're not root.

You can use LD_LIBRARY_PATH. It is much more flexible than hardcoding
paths.

> Debian packages generally require root priveleges to be installed, [...]

Well, one could certainly argue that our package system sucks in this
regard.

-- 
Robbe

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