Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: new QA_NEEDED variable for files installed by pre-built binary packages with broken soname dependencies

[Zac Medico]

On 11/07/2014 11:18 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> On 7 November 2014 13:04, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
>>
>>
>> In bug 528086 [1] we have a pre-built games package with a soname
>> dependency on libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0. The maintainer reports that the
>> game works fine without this library, so he doesn't want to add a
>> dependency on sdl-mixer.
>
> Ehm no this is absolutely ludicrously a bad idea.
>
> If the library is in NEEDED of binary, there is no need that said
> binary will run. If whatever package works fine without that binary
> being able to run, maybe the binary should not be installed.
>
> Just shoving this under the rug is preposterous.

Yeah, I figured that we'd get a reaction like this. I just thought I'd
start by proposing some sort of compromise, and then let others fight it
out. :)
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Thanks,
Zac