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  • From: Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] devel-xorg-modular merging
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 23:45:00 -0300

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:05:22 +0200
Remko van der Vossen <wich AT yuugen.jp> wrote:
<...>
> I had been working on tooling to find missing dependencies, but I
> soon ran into the whole libtool hell as well as the difficulties in
> finding the right library to which something actually links at
> runtime. If we however switch over to as-needed completely I would be
> interested in pursuing this further and develop tooling that allows
> us to improve the quality of out DEPENDS files. Then, when we have
> good quality DEPENDS files we don't really need to record link
> dependencies in tablet like I suggested long ago.

We could add an optional check at the install stage, right? Just make a
list of .so dependencies, translate that into package names, and
display a warning when the list doesn't match. We could later even
extend the functionality to scripting languages.

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