package lint suggestions

[Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)]

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Charles Wilson wrote:
| Not an error.  dlopen'ed modules -- such as m4-2.0 and perhaps
| ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick -- might be named ".dll" but will live in
| /usr/lib/<somewhere>/

HUNDREDS of packages have dlopen'ed modules:

$ find /usr/lib -name '*.dll' -o -name '*.so' | wc -l -
5173 -

So I'd say scratch that one.

| * /usr/info/dir and /usr/share/info/dir

Common collision-protect issue, and /usr/info shouldn't be used at all.

| * odd locations for LC_MESSAGES directories (e.g. other than
| /usr/share/locale/*/?
|
| * Eventually -- not yet -- disallow /usr/X11R6/

And /usr/local/.

| * The "check all packages for file conflicts" is a big job -- and will
| get lots of false positives whenever a package is split up into
| -devel/lib/bin pieces.  However, there are a few files that commonly
| conflict between packages:

"big job" is an understatement; google "gentoo collision-protect" to get
an idea.

| /usr/lib/charset.alias
| /usr/share/locale/locale.alias
| libbfd.a
| libiberty.a

How common are the last two?


Yaakov
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