| 1 |
Hi, |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
In bug 528086 [1] we have a pre-built games package with a soname |
| 4 |
dependency on libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0. The maintainer reports that the |
| 5 |
game works fine without this library, so he doesn't want to add a |
| 6 |
dependency on sdl-mixer. |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
In order to satisfy this "unneeded" soname dependency, preserve-libs |
| 9 |
will preserve libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 when sdl-mixer is uninstalled. So, |
| 10 |
it would be nice if we had a way to tell preserve-libs not to satisfy |
| 11 |
"unneeded" soname dependencies. |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
I would prefer not to ignore soname dependencies for all pre-built |
| 14 |
files, since some pre-built files may have library dependencies which |
| 15 |
are considered valid. Therefore, I suggest that we add a QA_NEEDED |
| 16 |
variable so that specific files with "unneeded" soname dependencies can |
| 17 |
be distinguished from files with soname dependencies that are actually |
| 18 |
needed. |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528086 |
| 21 |
-- |
| 22 |
Thanks, |
| 23 |
Zac |
Archives