> > 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.
Well, at least as a sanity check, this would prevent breaking a system, in a situation where the libraries required are not present on the system. Eldad -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
