Re: /usr/local news

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Damjan Jovanovic <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am hereby declaring that my attempts to convert a few commonly used
> open source libraries to support /usr/local have failed :-(.

I'm sorry to hear that, although I'm also not completely surprised...
It's a hard current you're trying to swim against.

> In brighter news, in Ubuntu 8.04, libc does support /usr/local. Looks
> like /usr/local is supported by libc by default now,
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf contains these 2 lines:
> # libc default configuration
> /usr/local/lib
>
> Seeing as libc was the only major library in Ubuntu that didn't
> support /usr/local, it looks like we can now whitelist Ubuntu 8.04 as
> a distribution on which installing to /usr/local does work properly.

This is indeed good news. If complaints arise again, I guess we can
implement the whitelist code and immediately whitelist ubuntu 8.04.

> But it simply isn't going to work this way, with a tiny group of us
> caring about cross-distribution compatibility and fd.o standards, and
> the vast majority not knowing or caring, and even opposing us. I'm
> contributing to Wine and Java - Linux as a platform for native
> applications is largely dead to me at the moment.

:-(

I'd like to write some encouraging words here - that we're getting
there and all that... but I kind of share the same thoughts as you.
:-/

But hey - who knows... LSB has lately gotten a lot of focus so who
knows what happens after the 4.0 release is out :)

/me is trying to be optimistic

-Isak

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