[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: Implement 'autolibprovides' option

[Allan McRae]

On 20/10/15 06:05, Mohammad Alsaleh wrote:
>   The option tries to find all real (no symlinks) library names
>   in the paths a compiler/linker search for by default. And add
>   those libraries to libprovides.
> 
>   The option is disabled by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mohammad Alsaleh <CE.Mohammad.AlSaleh at gmail.com>
> ---
> 
>  Side notes:
> 
>   1- I wasn't sure where to define the option. Since all options
>      were moved to libmakepkg/tidy.
> 
>   2- A side benefit of this approach is that the developer does not
>      have to guess what to put exactly in provides. A discussion from
>      2.5 years ago:
> 
>      https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-May/017147.html 
>      https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-May/017152.html

As I said in reply to those two years ago and previously when
libprovides first appeared, I will not approve any automatic additions
to the provides or depends array.

Allan