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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: New dependency for kdelibs and kdebase: dbusmenu-qt
From:       Praveen A <pravi.a () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-04 19:57:28
Message-ID: x2r3f2beab61005041256n98eff32qd2a6d2cf2b998d64 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2010/5/4 Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@kde.org>:
> It really depends on what you as the maintainer of this package want.
>
> No RPATH means that e.g. Qt has to be found either via the env. var
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or it is installed in a location which is searched anyway by
> the linker (loader), so e.g. /usr/lib or a directory configured
> in /etc/ld.so.conf.
>

At least in Debian the use of RPATH is discouraged, see
http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue for the rationale. At least provide
a configurable option to turn off rpath if it is made the default.

- Praveen
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