Re: Request for rewiew: mbuffer-20050730

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 15:57 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:44:51 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:21 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > why do the openssl libraries go in /lib?
> > Because there exist programs outside of /usr which need them.
> > 
> > For example:
> > rpm -q --requires -f /bin/rpm
> 
> /bin/rpm also depends on several libs below /usr, e.g. Kerberos
> or zlib:
>
> $ rpm -ql $(rpm -q --whatprovides libz.so.1 ) | grep libz.so.1
> /usr/lib/libz.so.1
> /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.2.2

+ /usr/lib/libbz.so.1
Makes me wonder how rpm is supposed to uncompress rpms when /usr is not
available??

+ /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
Wasn't rpm a C application ... ??

I have machines, where /usr is on separate partitions, but do I really
want test this - I fear a can of worms is waiting ...

Ralf