Re: TAKE - userspace

[Alan Eldridge <alane@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:36:19PM +0200, Seth Mos wrote:

>>What is the reason for putting libacl.a in /lib instead of leaving it in
>>/usr/lib where it belongs IMHO ?
>>This breaks all applications that try to link libacl.a at compiletime like
>>Samba and Fileutils. Please move it back.
>
>NO!
>
>If you only have your root filesystem, how would you then be able to run 
>xfsdump or xfsrestore.
>let's see.

D'ya think making the xfs* utils statically linked is a good compromise?
Then the libs could go back in /usr/lib.

PS I understand your point. How about Sun, where, for years, /bin =>
/usr/bin. Auuuggghhh!!!!

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Alan Eldridge
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