[PATCH] Replace libdepends/libprovides

Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) heftig at archlinux.org
Tue Dec 14 11:51:19 UTC 2021


On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 11:54 AM Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> This patch series replaces the old libdepends/libprovides system into
> something akin to that used by APK.  In short, makepkg.conf will have
> a variable like:
>
> LIB_DIRS=('lib:usr/lib' 'lib32:usr/lib32')
>

What about packages that install libraries into non-standard dirs and then
configure ld.so to look?

On my system I currently have:

/usr/lib/libfakeroot
/usr/lib/opencollada
/usr/lib/openmpi
/usr/lib/perf

Can this somehow be covered? I guess ignoring it wouldn't leave us any
worse off.


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