Re: Bug#402462: Would like libtorrent-rasterbar
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
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> Felipe Sateler wrote:
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>> The thing is you just named 3 cases were they are useful for unrelated
>> reasons (namely, saving mirror space via an arch: all package), while you
>> didn't provide the reason for libtorrent.
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>> Maybe I was unclear. What I meant is that perhaps, given that libtorrent is
>> only used by rtorrent, it should be shipped as
>> /usr/lib/rtorrent/libtorrent.so. I don't know if this is possible, but I
>> really do wonder if it useful to install it under /usr/lib/.
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> Because LibTorrent is _not_ part of the rtorrent upstream tarball.
Well, there's one reason to ship it separately then :). I thought libtorrent was
part of the rtorrent source.
> They're shipped individually for practical purposes (if someone wants,
> in some moment, to only use the library and not the client). Besides,
> there are normally more (a lot more) uploads of libtorrent than
> rtorrent, most of the changes are made in the library (talking about
> patches made to upstream and stuff).
More reason then to keep them separate.
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> Installing LibTorrent in /usr/lib is as useful as installing it in
> rtorrent, only that making the last one would imply actually changing
> the actual scheme. Don't know what for, _really_. There's another reason
> that just "Cause rtorrent is the only one using it right now"? (Which,
> BTW, is not true [1][2][3][4][5] are other examples of software using
> LibTorrent-Rakshasa)
Ok then. I was not aware of that other software.
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Felipe Sateler
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