From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:20:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160811122033.18152632@red.yakaraplc.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22444.22978.952581.582549@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:56:02 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> IMHO providing compatibility symlinks for proprietary binary-only
> >> programs isn't the task of the libpcre package.
>
> > I'm fine with putting it in libpcre-debian package as kentnl
> > suggested.
>
> I still think that the libpcre.so.3 compatibility link shouldn't be
> installed in a generally visible location. Install it in a specific
> directory instead, and start your binary with a wrapper which will
> add that directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
That makes it slightly more awkward for binaries you may have installed
manually. Can we agree to disagree on this one? It won't affect those
who don't need it. Obviously if anything blows up, I'll take full
responsibility.
--
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-11 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-10 23:10 [gentoo-dev] libpcre.so.3 - Compatibility with Debian James Le Cuirot
2016-08-11 5:53 ` Kent Fredric
2016-08-11 15:41 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-11 18:57 ` Patrick McLean
2016-08-18 5:45 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-11 9:43 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-08-11 10:11 ` James Le Cuirot
2016-08-11 10:56 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-08-11 11:20 ` James Le Cuirot [this message]
2016-08-11 11:49 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2016-08-11 12:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2016-08-11 12:13 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-11 14:57 ` Mart Raudsepp
2016-08-11 15:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2016-08-11 15:05 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-08-11 15:15 ` Mart Raudsepp
2016-08-11 19:56 ` James Le Cuirot
2016-08-11 20:07 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-08-11 21:34 ` Kent Fredric
2016-08-11 22:00 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-12 1:19 ` Mart Raudsepp
2016-08-18 6:06 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-11 20:50 ` Michał Górny
2016-08-11 21:30 ` James Le Cuirot
2016-08-11 21:55 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-12 0:27 ` Patrick McLean
2016-08-12 0:32 ` Kent Fredric
2016-08-12 14:12 ` james
2016-08-12 15:39 ` Kent Fredric
2016-08-12 17:40 ` james
2016-08-12 17:48 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-08-12 22:36 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-12 17:55 ` Kent Fredric
2016-08-11 16:23 ` james
2016-08-11 16:32 ` Mart Raudsepp
2026-08-13 18:27 ` james
2016-08-11 18:02 ` Matt Turner
2016-08-11 18:27 ` Deven Lahoti
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