[csw-maintainers] Shared library placement proposal

[Philip Brown]

On 2/3/11, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
>> We need to have the library visible in both locations, to avoid
>> confusion to both users, and potential auto-detect scripts. Ones that
>> tend to have single flags like --use-libfoo=/prefix, rather than 3
>> separate flags for --usr-libfoo-lib, --use-libfoo-include,
>> --use-libfoo-iforgettheotherthing
>
> I was quite opposed to this specific directories for different
> versions but lived with its inconveniences. Now that we have
> alternatives, it's really a PITA.
>
> Anyhow, what I wish is to not make it mandatory to separate different
> versions of the same project, which make sense to be installed
> simultaneously, in different directories but to be able to use
> alternatives and shared objects in /opt/csw/lib as a accepted solution.

well, we may have different reasons for it, but seems like in that
case, we both agree on something:

Forcing the "actual file", rather than a symlink, into /opt/csw/lib,
for *all* cases, is bad. Symlinks are more appropriate in some cases.

Whether that symlink is done via "alternatives" or some other means,
is not an immediate issue to me. The immediate concern to me is that
the proposal as written, prohibits that sort of thing, and so needs to
be changed.