Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Actually ocaml-pcre-devel is the one which requires pcre-devel. I > don't think this is against any guidelines, or if it is, it shouldn't > be. No, that makes sense. Your message wasn't clear about that. >> Instead, the software MUST be patched to dlopen the fully versioned >> so from the runtime package instead. > > If I understand what you mean, the software does this already. The > bug is that there's no explicit (or implicit) dependency to tell RPM > that it's doing this. There needs to be at least a Requires: pcre. I guess a Requires on the exact soname being dlopened would be more robust, but then you need to take care of that pesky '()(64bit)' multilib suffix. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel