huge library renaming ?

Marcus Meissner Marcus.Meissner at caldera.de
Fri Feb 23 06:29:29 CST 2001


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?

Ciao, Marcus




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