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> - - Binary packages don't require the header packages. |
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Theese are the main cause of pain in situations like this. |
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Why? Because they just install the hard RDEPEND, so if you have a system |
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installed from binaries, you get working linking, but nothing will |
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compile for the system. |
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Theese level of inheritance bugs are a ripe minefield for the whole |
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distribution, and one that will severely damage the distribution as a |
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whole. one way of solving it is to go through each and every |
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top-level application and violently scan all its included files, and all |
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files included from those headers in turn, in order to get the |
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dependencies right. |
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The other is to fix the level closest to the breakage by making sure |
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that headers are treated like libraries. |
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Hope I'm making this clear enough, its fairly early. |
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//Spider |
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Tortured users / Laughing in pain |
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See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. |
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