Re: Does Core have an accurate count of packages which are built against libraries from firefox?

[Tom Lane <tgl redhat com>]

seth vidal <skvidal linux duke edu> writes:
> On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 20:30 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> On 12/26/06, Tom Lane <tgl redhat com> wrote:
>>> +1 --- although I suspect Jeff meant that already, ie, he was just
>>> using firefox as an example of a package with many dependent packages.
>> 
>> Its more than that, the firefox situation is extraordinary because of
>> the way the dependencies are handled. Something needs to be done,

> Isn't this a function of the package database some of the infrastructure
> folks are working on? Or, alternatively, couldn't we have it tracked
> from the srpm builddep relationships?

well, Jeff makes it perfectly clear that he thinks firefox has a special
problem.  I'm still in favor of some kind of generic solution, because
I know I've broken a few downstream packages in my time :-( ... but
perhaps firefox needs some extra mechanism.

			regards, tom lane