Firstly i asked about the shared libs to the Xfree team, and there was no good reason for them being disabled, according to my replies from the list.
Secondly this would be a concern if we were making .pkg OS X style installed that aren't managed. (i.e. kinda like rpm thought I'll give rpms quazi management) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >When an application is linked with a shared version of libXv or >libXinerama present, the linker will prefer this shared version over >the static one. The resulting application will fail to run anywhere >where the shared library does not exist. You might ask why we can't >just get XFree86 to adopt your patch and start distributing shared >versions of these libraries. I seriously doubt the XFree86 Core Team >would accept such a change as: > >1. Such changes should be made across all platforms. >2. There are good reasons why these libraries are not shared. >3. This has already come up before and Red Hat was bapped for doing >exactly this. ¸.·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·., Justin F. Hallett - Systems Analyst Phone: (780)-408-3094 Fax: (780)-454-3200 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·., _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel