On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:26:00PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [...] > > > Finally, maybe all this shows that there is a propper usage of rpath > > > finally, and that the ocaml_packaging_policy should allow rpath for > > > these cases, and these cases only.
I never said that rpath is evil, one must know its benefits and drawbacks and decide when to use it. In our case, I am still not convinced it does a good job, but I need more time; you guys are thinking too fast for me, I have to test how OCaml does use it. > > Maybe. But the scary scenario of Denis where you end up compiling > > against an old version still applied, doesn't it? I think so. > We don't care. It is just a matter of discipline, you build your > packages in pbuilder or upload source only and let the autobuilders do > their job. Ouch, do you really believe that everyone builds his packages with pbuilder? And in this case please add Build-Conflicts against previous versions to make sure that there are no problems. Denis
