On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 08:20:48PM +0000, Sylvain Le Gall wrote:
> Full ACK with Stephane. The link is just a compatibility hack, writing
> it into policy is another hack.
You cannot possibly believe that documenting into the policy the
findlib site-lib location is a hack. Why then writing the OCaml
standard library path is not a hack? It would be enough to tell people
to use `ocamlc -where` everywhere ...
So, if people are uncomfortable with the symlink, I'll drop it, but
please remember that Debian is not about telling people how to do
thing the right way: if out there there were a lot of software relying
on site-lib, and if we can support it easily without messing up with
our coherent distribution, we should do that.
I stand back here because I'm not convinced there is _a lot_ of such
software, but for sure adding the symlink is not "messing up" with the
rest of our stuff.
Cheers.
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