On Saturday 31 May 2003 13:54, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> > The reason to me seems that you don't
> > provide a lot of fancy named links to libdb.a.
>
> That's correct. But IMHO those "fancy" names are nasty and I think we
> should not play this game in OpenPKG, because it introduces mud into the
> package. Instead, fixing or tweaking those packages which are unable to
> find a straight-forward libdb.a should be fixed by us.

well it seems the majority feels OK about having this links
I agree that this is not a 100% good indication though.

> In OpenPKG we went the hard way and fixed
> many packages so they work with the latest Berkeley-DB 4.1 

Hmm I think I would prefer having the links over patching configure 
scripts of all dependend packages on a regular basis - because
patching configure scripts is what I regard as "nasty".

I would prefer to create the environment to have internet sources built
almost unmodified. 

Sorry I don't follow you here. But it's your show. Choose your poison.
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