Bug#519941: 10.2 Libraries recommends use of /etc/ld.so.conf instead of /etc/ld.so.conf.d

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:44:49AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
>> 
>> > This recommendation needs to be elminated entirely.  It is *not* ok for
>> > packages that provide libraries to stick extra linker paths in the
>> > global configuration, whether by modifying ld.so.conf or by adding to
>> > /etc/ld.so.conf.d.  Either the libraries provided by the packages are
>> > meant to be public, in which case they should be installed to the
>> > standard library path instead of needlessly adding another directory
>> > that's going to be globally visible anyway; or they should not, and the
>> > cooperating packages should use rpath instead.
>> >
>> > Use of rpath should still be discouraged, but if someone is bound and
>> > determined to violate the FHS with their library paths in order to have
>> > private libraries, they should make them really private with rpath
>> > instead of using this "compromise" solution that takes the worst of each
>> > approach.
>> 
>> Seconded.
>
> I also agree.
>
>
> Kurt

Fine by me even though my vote doesn't count.

MfG
        Goswin