Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 04:45:42 -0500 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Alan Lundin <aflundi@lundin.abq.nm.us> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands. Message-ID: <l03102801afee52a975ac@[208.2.87.4]> In-Reply-To: <199707130340.VAA04548@lundin.abq.nm.us.> References: "Richard Wackerbarth" <rkw@dataplex.net> "Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands." (Jul 11, 11:43am)
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Alan Lundin <aflundi@lundin.abq.nm.us> replied:
>On Jul 11, 11:43am, "Richard Wackerbarth" wrote:
[...]
>> Why not get both effects. Have two config files, for example,
>> /etc/ld.so.conf and /usr/local/etc/ld.so.conf.
[...]
>Why not just source ld.so.conf if it exists then you
>can have either behavior depending on what is in ld.so.conf:
[...]
>and ld.so.conf can contain something like
>
> ${_LDC}="${_LDC} /my/new/lib/dir"
>
>for append behavior or
>
> ${_LDC}="/usr/X11R6/lib /my/new/lib/dir /usr/local/lib"
>
>for override behavior.
I don't think that your format gives them the flexability
that they wished to make it easy to have things automatically
install and deinstall. For the "manually edited" situation,
I would agree that it is a bit cleaner. However, it was by
inpression that they wanted to make it easy to automate
changes when packages come and go.
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