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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:39:25
Message-Id: 200609231034.04267.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable by Alin Nastac
1 On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:24, Alin Nastac wrote:
2 > I see only libraries in NEEDED and it is probably generated
3 > automatically. There is no way for the automatic tools to discover the
4 > dependency between pptpd and ppp version.
5
6 that gets back to ABI versus dynamic plugins ... we already know we'll need a
7 new DEPEND to track dlopen-ed plugins
8
9 > Besides, even if I would have somehow /usr/lib/ppp/2.4.3 in NEEDED file
10 > of the pptpd, the amount of computation needed to discover which package
11 > offers such thing would be prohibitive. The reciprocal operation (find
12 > which packages use the old path before upgrade) would also be prohibitive.
13
14 no it wouldnt ... when you merge a package, you record all the SONAME's it
15 provides:
16 scanelf -qRS "${D}" > SONAME
17
18 in fact, running `scanelf -qlpRS` doesnt take that long on my machine
19 -mike

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