> > Well, then we think alike. A package that installed both /usr/bin/foo and > > /bin/foo would have to be perverse, in my opinion. Both are searched by > > default, so one is as good as the other, except when /usr is not mounted. > > Well, the point is that usr/lib -> /lib will cause less to none problems > than /usr -> /, because we map much less back tot he root filesystem, and > conflicts in lib directories are less expected than problems in bin > directories. > > However, this is all moot if we can add support for /usr/lib to the linker > easily, which we should do in the Debian packages, IMHO.
Indeed. Can this be done RSN? > > Recall now that all of this was prompted by a package that did just that. > > So go figure. > > This is not correct. I know at least one packages which does install the > same directories in lib and /usr/lib (the libc5-compat package, which > fortunately doesn't apply to the Hurd), but I don't know of any files. > > Which package do you mean? The original report was about /usr/lib not being > searched. Bringing me back to the original question - is there a way to fix this or do I have to ln -s /usr/lib /lib? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
