Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Nick LeRoy <nleroy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 1:03 pm, Jonathan Shilling wrote:
> If the package would include the necessary libraries to install and run,
> rather than being dependentant on what the distro may already come with,
> should resolve this issue.  For the most part just about every package I
> have come across I could compile and execute on Mandrake, SuSE, Red Hat,
> Debian, and *BSD.  There is only the matter of porting the libraries.
> 	Jonathan

Sorry, but I ardently disagree here.  This is what all the Windoze apps do, 
and is IMHO what's been known to cause the DLL-hell that anybody whose ever 
used windoze has battled too many times.

Now, I suppose I might relax my position _if_ it could install these libs in a 
non-shared (ie app specific) location.  Instead of installing a different 
libfoo.so in /usr/lib, package bar installed in, say, /opt/bar, and installed 
/opt/bar/lib/libfoo.so and /opt/bar/bin/bar is a shell script that sets 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH before starting the _real_ /opt/bar/bin/bar.bin.  Even then, 
however, I'd say this should only be done _when neccessary_.

-Nick