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> > Why more metadata? Can't we just run a ldd check on the binaries, |
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> > check that the relevant libraries are present, if not do a lookup in a |
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> > (to-be-created) list of library<->package mappings and add the |
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> > relevant packages as PDEPEND? (or yell at the user to provide that |
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> > library ;) |
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> Because we don't want to download the complete package, unpack, do |
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> magic on ELF binaries and .so files, then determine "oh, this won't |
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> work" .. It would make it a veeery slow process. |
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Well, at least as a sanity check, this would prevent breaking a system, |
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in a situation where the libraries required are not present on the |
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system. |
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Eldad |
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