On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Steve Dum wrote:
First, ldd is a tool that reads the binary file of an executable and prints out dependency information found in the executable (and in it's dependent libraries) - a simple read a few files and print the results.
Steve, Which is what I wrote in my original message.
Answering the question who uses a library, is much more difficult. It typically requires that something is maintaining a database that says which packages require what libraries. This has 2 vaults
For SlackBuilds.org packages there are several options. I selected hoorex and it does a great job of identify all packages depending on the library passed on the command line. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
