On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 20:58, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > Binary packages are dirty ;-) Anyone some idea what debian does to this > respect?
They are indeed dirty... Debian has a script that does an LDD on every executable and associates the .so deps with specific packages versions and add those as dependencies.. But they dont have use flags, etc... There is no way around storing the exact dependencies of .so versions in the packages I think... The suggestion that I saw of storing from which package/version they were last seen seems the best thing to do.. So we can at least give the users a hint on what to do... Its better to just have portage stop with "library version of XX does not match YY, you can not install this binary package, recompile yourself". Even if it does reject stuff that would normally work, that's probably better than accepting stuff that breaks.. -- Olivier Cr�te [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer
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