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Subject: Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands. 
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> And Xi Graphics seems to have ignored my comment about just using the
> existing framework and adding /usr/{local,X11R6}/etc/rc.d/foo.sh to
> run ldconfig.sh and any other startup stuff.  The -m flag to ldconfig
> was added for a reason.

I agree; this mechanism seems to work pretty nicely for both ports/packages
as well as local software.  

> See what the modula-3-lib port does.  I don't think an /etc/ld.so.conf
> is necessary (much less /usr/local/etc/ld.so.conf).  I propose backing
> it out.

I've used it locally to handle [incr tcl] which is installed in a different
location and it sure beats having to edit a file, etc.  And using the
/usr/local/etc/rc.d script, you can invoke arbitrary policy (see if a
directory that might be on removable media exists, etc) before adding
directories to the list.

It seems like to opportunity to render you machine inert with a badly
"automatically" edited /etc/ld.so.conf file compared with the existing
mechanisms argue against this new approach.

louie