Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > The recent discussion of dependencies brings up an interesting > question. How *do* you actually determine what is used in a > package?
> So, we must rule out ldd as a definitive method of determining a > dependency. Though it can be used as a helpful tool, though. > > So, how do we check? Not sure it's technically possible to determin 'optional dependencies' at all - you have to trust the depeloper to document them. On package build depenencies the readelf method sort of works but doesn't necessarily tell you if a depended-on package must be built with specific optional dependencies. (but I hope I'm wrong about this...) ISTR that some gnome packages depend on their deps being built in a particular way. I have always trusted the BLFS book as the source of all this information :-) R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
