[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] [RFC] 33% speedup in RPM!

[Mark Hatle]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Leland Ray (Leland_Ray at symantec.com) said: 
>> What is the recommendation for packaging shared libraries that need a
>> link from their soname to their filename, if not using ldconfig? Is it
>> to manage link creation/deletion within scriptlets, or am I missing
>> something?
> 
> If you do not want to packagte the links, call ldconfig. If you *do*
> package the links, you shouldn't need to call ldconfig.

I always tell the packages I work with to include the links.  This way
they can be cleaned up/removed/referenced with RPM queries.  Using
ldconfig to create the links makes them not rpm managable.

--Mark