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To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams)
cc: Steven Wallace <swallace@newport.ece.uci.edu>,
        Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/ld shlib.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 95 22:46:32 MST."
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 00:33:32 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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I agree completely and utterly with Nate.  Having a port just
magically work because /usr/local/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib are magically
tacked on by the system is one of the purest forms of evil there is;
it masks your true dependencies and causes people to be unforgivably
lazy in their porting habits, making "freebsd-centric" software arise
to further plague those who would like their large free software
collections to compile on *multiple* platforms.  This was a good
change, and one of the prime examples of what we need to do to
actually simplify certain parts of the system if we're not to dig a
big ugly hole for ourselves to later fall into.

					Jordan