Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

Remove the Policy permission for packages to install libraries in a
subdirectory and add that directory to /etc/ld.so.conf.

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 43cf4d6d140de871594e292d315b69d67aa174f4..d2b8c66d9d3979f50d909a9f7b3e00de7e0d2479 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -7010,17 +7010,6 @@ strip --strip-unneeded <var>your-lib</var>
          </footnote>
        </p>
 
-       <p>
-         Packages containing shared libraries that may be linked to
-         by other packages' binaries, but which for some
-         <em>compelling</em> reason can not be installed in
-         <file>/usr/lib</file> directory, may install the shared library
-         files in subdirectories of the <file>/usr/lib</file> directory,
-         in which case they should arrange to add that directory in
-         <file>/etc/ld.so.conf</file> in the package's post-installation
-         script, and remove it in the package's post-removal script.
-       </p>
-
        <p>
          An ever increasing number of packages are using
          <prgn>libtool</prgn> to do their linking.  The latest GNU