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Date:      Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:00:50 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        nik@iii.co.uk
Cc:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.0 Schedule, ELF and CAM 
Message-ID:  <199808120130.LAA22961@cain.gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:38:46 %2B0100." <19980811093846.A11516@iii.co.uk> 

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> On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 11:02:48PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> > If not "/usr/lib", where would you like your elf libs to go to?
> /usr/lib.elf and /usr/lib.aout, with /usr/lib being a symlink to whichever
> one is the current default on the system.
> This is probably a frighteningly bad idea, but every time I've mentioned 
> it on -hackers or -current, no one's stood up to say so.
That's a bit limiting..
Since you can use both types of libs, why limit youself?
I would think that in most cases ldconfig /usr/lib/<format of choice>
would be a better solution.

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