Re: [gentoo-dev] How help in arch testing work

On 1/18/12 7:10 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2012 12:32:08 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
>> Same here. How about adding some warning to portage (maybe just in the
>> developer profile) when files in NEEDED are provided by packages not in
>> RDEPEND?
>
> atm, we'll get a lot of false positives due to over-linking.  the libtool +
> .la files "issue" is a general example.  another one off the top of my head: a
> package uses GTK+, so it runs `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0`, and links against a
> lot more stuff than GTK+, but it doesn't list those deps itself, so it'd fail.
>
> we could extend the logic to assume anything not found in the pkg's RDEPEND,
> but was found in the full RDEPEND tree, is simply an implicit dep like that,
> but this quickly dilutes the usefulness i think :(.

Oh, I meant the full RDEPEND tree in the above terminology.

It's not perfect indeed, but should catch most serious errors.

Also, we could make the "direct RDEPEND" problem a non-fatal warning.