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On 7 Jul 2001, Juan Quintela wrote:
[I proposed a way of checking dependencies by brute force, with a kind
of binary search of randomly installing and uninstalling packages.]
>Instead of that, it is easier, to convince the script to search
>through .h and .c files for #include<> and search what -devel packages
>provide that.
That's another useful optimization. Guess at what the dependencies
might be, and try installing those. But it cannot be infallible (eg,
you'd also have to grep through the configure scripts for -lwhatever
lines and probably other stuff). So the brute force 'uninstall half the
packages and see whether it still works' would still be needed as a
fallback.
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Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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