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Re: [RFC] proposal for reorganizing the MESA libraries to simplify replacing them with vendor implementations



Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 18:57:17 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

>> * the Ubuntu approach of dropping something in ld.so.conf.d/ - would we
>> need one file/one alternative per arch? (I didn't look in detail at the
>> Ubuntu packages, yet.) A gain handling config files with alternatives
>> ... but this time config files that are not meant for user modification
>> (compared to my approach to handle xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d/nvidia.conf
>> with alternatives)

> Pretty please not messing with ld.so.conf.

Yeah, ld.so.conf fiddling is kind of scary.  Which library you get then
depends on ld.so.conf.d fragments, there may be shadowed libraries on the
search path, etc.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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