-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Felipe Sateler wrote: [some text missing] > > The thing is you just named 3 cases were they are useful for unrelated reasons > (namely, saving mirror space via an arch: all package), while you didn't > provide the reason for libtorrent. > > Maybe I was unclear. What I meant is that perhaps, given that libtorrent is > only > used by rtorrent, it should be shipped as /usr/lib/rtorrent/libtorrent.so. I > don't know if this is possible, but I really do wonder if it useful to install > it under /usr/lib/. >
Because LibTorrent is _not_ part of the rtorrent upstream tarball. They're shipped individually for practical purposes (if someone wants, in some moment, to only use the library and not the client). Besides, there are normally more (a lot more) uploads of libtorrent than rtorrent, most of the changes are made in the library (talking about patches made to upstream and stuff). Installing LibTorrent in /usr/lib is as useful as installing it in rtorrent, only that making the last one would imply actually changing the actual scheme. Don't know what for, _really_. There's another reason that just "Cause rtorrent is the only one using it right now"? (Which, BTW, is not true [1][2][3][4][5] are other examples of software using LibTorrent-Rakshasa) Regards. [1] http://code.google.com/p/ntorrent/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/rtgui/ [3] http://canbruixa.homelinux.net/wt/ [4] http://projects.cyla.homeip.net/rtwi/ [5] http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/06/23/rtorstat-a-simple-rtorrent-status-web-page-generator/ - -- Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. PGP: 0xCACAB118 http://ghostbar.ath.cx/{about,acerca} - http://debian.org.ve `ghostbar' @ irc.debian.org/#debian-ve,#debian-devel-es -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIMj0tOKCtW8rKsRgRAmRwAJ4+Oh7r0sh9NtvAg5n+w2Nme5Yb2QCdFrK4 9NTE65MvJ2vHb51zn8k5RX0= =cz21 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
