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

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

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