Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Christian Aichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> A "problem" means that the package has useless dependencies on >>> library packages. This causes the kind of trouble outlined above and >>> should be fixed. A HOWTO is here: >>> http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib/howto-fix-problems.html > >> Hey. If we have a programmatic way of detecting this cases, why not >> just fold that into the shlibdeps program, and be done with it? > > How could shlibdeps help? The trouble with these dependencies is that, > when the library or binary is loaded, all of those NEEDED libraries will > also be loaded, even though they're not actually needed. So the shared > library or binary *does* depend on those libraries, in that it won't run > unless they're present, despite the fact that it's not actually using any > symbols from them.
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