On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:47:49AM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > Hi, > > Inspired by > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2006-June/msg00176.html, > I've had a patch for rpmlint in my local tree for a while which checks for > unused direct shared library dependencies in shared libs. > > I'm wondering whether this check is a good idea; I'm not an expert in this I am not an expert either but I think this is a very good idea. I have started to do this manually in all the reviews. I think it seems interesting to me for the following reasons: * it seems to improve linking * it removes unneeded dependencies, so rpm/yum/... will likely be faster * rebuilt are not necessary when an indirect dependency ABI changes In my opinion the best way to remove those unneeded dependecies is to * use pkgconfig and .private apropriately in libraries * work with upstream such that packages that depend on the libraries use pkgconfig apropriately. -- Pat -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
