Free Software audit update

[Rex Dieter]

Laurent Rineau wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:45, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>> You should have packaged lesstif in such a way both openmotif-devel and
>>>> lesstif-devel can be installed in parallel.
>>> I would be happy to achieve that, but how?
> 
>>>  The headers and the .so
>>> conflict.
>> Different installation paths, different rpaths.
> 
> Ok for different installation paths, but RPATH should be avoided, in Fedora, 
> AFAIK.
> 
> Actually, if only the -devel subpackage of lesstif and openmotif are in 
> conflicts, it means, i think, that their libraries have different SONAME. So 
> only "-L" should be needed to link with the one that is not installed in 
> default libraries, in that case: both installation paths could be 
> in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/.

IMO, it's just not worth it.  -devel conflicts are acceptable, if it 
means avoiding the pain induced by the hacks required to workaround it 
(ie, non-standard installation paths, -rpath, ld.so.conf.d, ...)

-- Rex