On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:32:28AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "MS" == Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael@xxxxxxx> writes: > > MS> Broken dependencies are one thing, broken "Provides" another. The > MS> distribution includes an increasing number of packages, which > MS> don't filter their SONAME Provides when they include shared > MS> libraries in private paths. > > I recall past discussions about whether these were problematic but I > never recall seeing any mandate that they be filtered. > > Frankly, these are so incredibly common that I really think it's > completely counterproductive to require packagers to go out of their > way to fix broken dependency generation. Why not fix the dependency > generator instead? > > All it needs to do to fix up most of the issues is not look outside > the standard library paths. For those rather few packages which add > to the regular ldconfig search path, they can either add dependencies > manually or can be provided with some way to add directories that the > dependency generator will search. It could even look for files > contained in the package which will be placed in /etc/ld.so.conf.d and > automatically generate dependencies for them. I filled a bug report related to that issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224544 -- Pat -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
