On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:44:05 PDT, Sergei Steshenko said: > Even if I build my own, and not change /etc/ld.so.conf, and I > don not want to change it, because I do not want to break the system, > I'll have two sets of X-related things - one is my packages and the > other is other packages. > > So, even though my packages will have symbols resolved in my X, > system packaged will still be using system X. > > I think this will be a great mess. You think it's a great mess *now* - at least if you have 2 sets in different directories you can use -L/usr/set1/lib and -L/usr/set2/lib to select which one a give program should use. Now imagine trying to deal with it *without* the -L you complain so much about.
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