On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:29:29PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:31:50PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
Hello all,
one thing that occurred to me: Shouldn't we rename *all* Wine libraries to libwineXXX ?
AFAIR there have been several naming conflicts with other projects (libole, ...), and people who need to remove a previous Wine install from their system manually have a rather hard time...
Any reason for not doing this ? I can't think of any...
If this is a good thing, then we should do this NOW, not when it's too late.
The current drawbacks are just too much IMHO.
Why not put them in /usr/lib/wine/ as suggested by the FHS?
Hmm, yes that's one solution.
However this doesn't solve naming conflicts, does it ? If we have libole and another project (was it gnumeric ?) uses the same name, then there really is nothing to our defense. If we choose to use libwine_xxx or something similar, then the other project looks pretty stupid if it somehow decides to choose the same name (which won't happen anyway).
Putting the libraries in /usr/lib/wine instead seems to only solve the "easy uninstall" problem.
Andreas Mohr