On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 06:56:26AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 20/10/15 06:05, Mohammad Alsaleh wrote: > > The option tries to find all real (no symlinks) library names > > in the paths a compiler/linker search for by default. And add > > those libraries to libprovides. > > > > The option is disabled by default. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mohammad Alsaleh <[email protected]> > > --- > > > > Side notes: > > > > 1- I wasn't sure where to define the option. Since all options > > were moved to libmakepkg/tidy. > > > > 2- A side benefit of this approach is that the developer does not > > have to guess what to put exactly in provides. A discussion from > > 2.5 years ago: > > > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-May/017147.html > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-May/017152.html > > As I said in reply to those two years ago and previously when > libprovides first appeared, I will not approve any automatic additions > to the provides or depends array. >
Noted. If anyone is interested. This patch is broken as it causes the original provides to be deleted. A fixed version along with another patch that implements 'autolibdepends' are available here: https://github.com/MoSal/pacman > Allan
