begin quote On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:20:58 +0100 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Or should binaries have more metadata in them, perhaps a specific > > requirement for libraries? (sheesh, then its down to RPM again. > > that's bad. ) > > Why more metadata? Can't we just run a ldd check on the binaries, > check that the relevant libraries are present, if not do a lookup in a > (to-be-created) list of library<->package mappings and add the > relevant packages as PDEPEND? (or yell at the user to provide that > library ;) Because we don't want to download the complete package, unpack, do magic on ELF binaries and .so files, then determine "oh, this won't work" .. It would make it a veeery slow process. and library<->package binary base is a bad solution. Conflicts (we have them) and other nagging things like USE flags have a role here Remember, some library dependencies are due to USE flag settings. we can't accomodate for all possible combinations.. Its not feasible. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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