Re: keeping distros and admins off of each other's toes

> But if you want the same path /package/prog/skalibs to mean one thing
> to you while it means something else to other processes, then (unless
> you're on GNU/Hurd) you need a bit of help from root, and the
> technique I know only works on Solaris and Linux: if fd 63 is open to
> a directory, then /proc/self/fd/63 is a symlink to that directory, and
> you can refer to paths like /proc/self/fd/63/package/prog/skalibs.
> /package could then be a symlink to /proc/self/fd/63/package.

 Yuck !
 If you need to bug your system administrator, bug him to install
skalibs-0.41 instead, and use /package/prog/skalibs-0.41 in your
dependencies/scripts (since you're relying on a version number
anyway).

-- 
 Ska