Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > The 'qemu' package has a bug, of sorts: the maintainer should have > added a specific Requires line: > > Requires: usbredir >= <some version> > > However, instead of pushing this problem on packagers, maybe RPM > should resolve this by encoding the (admittedly long) list of symbols > used by a binary? Unless you redesign the entire way we store, distribute, and process dependency metadata first, doing anything of this sort is just pushing a world of pain onto everyone. An enterprising soul could calculate how many library:symbol:version entries a typical package would have, and how many of the same a typical library would need to provide. I am not that soul. This was rejected for the small case of the kernel's modversioned symbols, and that's only one self-contained package. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
