From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 13 02:49:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA13160 for current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 02:49:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA13155 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 02:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (user4.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA00207; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 04:48:31 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199707130340.VAA04548@lundin.abq.nm.us.> References: "Richard Wackerbarth" "Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands." (Jul 11, 11:43am) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 04:45:42 -0500 To: Alan Lundin From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands. Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alan Lundin 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.