#2781: Consider adding Popt to LFS
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Reporter: ra...@… | Owner: lfs-b...@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: 6.8
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: minor | Keywords:
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Comment(by matt...@…):
Hi Randy,
Pkg-Config also includes a copy of Glib, which could also be prone to
vulnerabilities too. Unfortunately, to fully test Glib-2.26.0, requires
at least 12 dependencies (I still haven't gotten a full passing testsuite
yet).
Things get even more "interesting" for another LFS package, Gettext, which
has optional dependencies on libxml2, java, fortran...
So, in short, whilst I don't have an objection against adding popt per-se,
it has the potential to open up the floodgates for further package
additions.
Maybe an easier to manage approach here would be to add a note to those
packages that bundle some of their dependencies mentioning that the reader
may want to rebuild them after installing the relevant BLFS packages?
Thanks,
Matt.
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