This was an issue I was going to bring up on tech-pkg to get a concensus.  
   I may end up having the pkg create symlinks for the .so.MAJOR in /usr/lib to
   ${LOCALBASE}/lib to make ELF systems happy, as ELF has no notion of
   `ld.so.conf'.
   
   For now, the pkg requires LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be set.


gee, maybe we could fix that by adding ls.so.conf support to the elf ld.so.

andy doran recently got bitten by this, expecting ld.so.conf to work but it
not doing so.


how many more users are we going to screw over before we "give in" to elf
ld.so.conf ?


.mrg.


ps:  rant not directed at anyone (except maybe ross :)