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

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

On 7 November 2014 13:04, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
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> 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.


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