Re: ✘"Can't find packet library")

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Bernd!

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 23:01:09 +0200
Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:

> On 7/28/20 8:54 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Nope.  Several reasons.  Some distros, like Gentoo, move libs around
> > after install.    
> 
> Eww.
> If a distribution does something else than using DESTDIR= to install
> things to a different directory to package them, things will be broken
> in way too many things.

Apples and Oranges.  I was talking about "after install", your are
talking about "at install".  And remember, Gentoo does not usually
"package" at all.  Somehow Gentoo seems to work better than other
distros, so maybe somethings for you to learn from it.

> Actually I do not know a single distribution that moves files around
> after install. I don't know Gentoo, though.

And today you learned that Gentoo and Arch can.  Gentoo can, at runtime,
move packages between, for example, /lib, /lib32 and /lib64, depending
on user preferences.  This allows users to upgrade seamlessly, at their
own rate, from older to newer FHS standard locations.  Another way
that Gentoo avoids the problems "packaged" distros have with version
upgrades.

RGDS
GARY
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR 97703
        gem@rellim.com  Tel:+1 541 382 8588

            Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas?
    "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it." - Lord Kelvin

pgp1Jq81Y7bKM.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature