Re: [arch-dev-public] How the use of "provides" can damage the dependency tree

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Thomas Bächler<thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:

Pierre Schmitz schrieb:

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What do we learn by this? The use of provides can be dangerous when the providers have different deps. I wonder if we have more such problems.

That's why namcap should use direct link-level dependencies using readelf and not rely on the fact that a dependency already provides the library in question.

Actually, this would probably help us in a lot of ways - it'd make finding deps for rebuilds easier