Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > -----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.
Well, there's one reason to ship it separately then :). I thought libtorrent was part of the rtorrent source. > 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). More reason then to keep them separate. > > 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) Ok then. I was not aware of that other software. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
