Description of Problem: I would like to suggest that libpcre.so.* not be located in /lib but in /usr/lib. I don't understand why it is in /lib. The reason why I am suggesting this is because a program I was compiling claled modlogan which failed because libpcre.so.* was in /lib. I moved it to /usr/lib and reran ldconfig and it worked. Maybe I don't know how shared libraries work properly :(
We're putting pcre in /lib because (/bin/)grep 2.5 will depend on it. While we're still at grep 2.4, it isn't obvious, I know. But we'd rather put it in the right place(TM) right away than having to move it later (when we update grep). If modlogan doesn't find it there, that's their bug: Any application using pcre should use "pcre-config --libs" and "pcre-config --cflags" to get the location of pcre.