Ühel kenal päeval, N, 11.08.2016 kell 11:05, kirjutas Ian Stakenvicius: > Wouldn't the most simple solution here would be to make a symlink for > libpcre.so.3 within the local bindir for each Valve or whatever > package that needs it? This is a binary-package-supporting hack, > might as well do it in the binary packages that need it. You might > still need to wrap the binary to set some environment stuff, not > sure; > either way it doesn't seem to make sense to make this a system-wide > thing. >
It makes sense, IF it doesn't hurt absolutely anything as a by-product. Also open source stuff should be gradually moving over to pcre2, eventually ending up with libpcre.so being for binary packages exclusively in due time anyways. Ühel kenal päeval, N, 11.08.2016 kell 16:03, kirjutas Ciaran McCreesh: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 17:57:59 +0300 > Steam isn't a use case, it's a program. Use case is proprietary gaming and software, if that makes you happier and avoids further useless e-mails due to feeling like nitpicking on a perhaps very slightly wrong terminology. Having specifically Steam hassle-free is also important on the desktop, unless your only goal is to be a FSF endorsed distribution. But it covers all proprietary software that targets and tests stuff working on Debian/Ubuntu (which is the majority of cases, sadly). Mart
