On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 17:20 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote: > Thanks again. Following this advice when packaging makes perfect sense > to me. Still, when reviewing, my question is how hard I should push > it. If I understand Kevin correct I shouldn't push it all (?). Is your > position that private, unversioned libs in /usr/lib* is a problem, > but not a blocker? I may just be dumb, but I find myself not entirely sure what Alec is asking about here - his asterisks seem ambiguous. To be perfectly clear, are you talking about this case: Package 'foo' provides, on i686: /usr/lib/libfoo.so on x86_64: /usr/lib64/libfoo.so which is used as a private library, not intended to be shared with other apps Or this case: Package 'foo' provides, on i686: /usr/lib/foo/libfoo.so on x86_64: /usr/lib64/foo/libfoo.so which is used as a private library, not intended to be shared with other apps or some other case? In my understanding, the first is not really 'kosher' for the reasons Toshio states; the second is fine. I've always understood that $libdir/appname is exactly where apps should put such 'private libs'. To avoid any confusion I suggest in future referring to 'that directory which is /usr/lib on i686 and /usr/lib64 on x86-64' as $libdir, not as '/usr/lib*'. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
