Re: RPM Soft dependencies (Was: Re: Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting)

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Kevin Kofler (kevin kofler chello at) said: 
> Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> > I filed a bug report about it, and devels added an option to make it
> > works with libraries only
> 
> And how do you define "library"? There's no reliable way to distinguish them
> from applications.

If a package installs a shared object with a SONAME in %{_libdir}, it is
a reasonable assumption that it contains libraries.

Bill