On Tuesday 08 September 2009 11:13:06 Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: > hi, I'm just wondering, what's the purpose of moving the symlink in > '/lib/libz.so', and creating a '/usr/lib/libz.so' instead? FHS compliance? > LSB compliance? just because '/usr/lib' is first in the search path before > '/lib'? > > -jf > > -- > In the meantime, here is your PSA: > "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not > help." > -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation > http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 >
Short answer: it is just for cleanness in / Long answer: *.so files are only needed at compile-time so they are better placed in /usr than in / . The dynamic loader finds libz.so.1
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