cracklib package incomplete

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Thu Jan 29 02:16:52 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:10:23PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Daniel Roesen (dr at cluenet.de) said: 
> > On a general note: whats the reasoning behind moving those header files
> > to a subdirectory? It breaks lots of things if no compat symlinks are
> > provided, but then you could just leave the headers where they were.
> 
> namespacing. Apps should *all* use subdirectories in /usr/include
> wherever possible, to ensure they all stay out of each others way.

Well, but how much is that worth if it doesn't get changed upstream,
and you have to patch every single application including headers?

Have to admit that I didn't check GDBM situation, but given that
current PHP still needs <ndbm.h> and has no provision in the
configure script for <gdbm/*.h>, I guess it hasn't been changed
upstream... and the symlink was already there in RH 7.1, so...


Best regards,
Daniel





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