Caution! Bad SONAME Provides

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 10:32 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "MS" == Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> writes:
> 
> MS> Broken dependencies are one thing, broken "Provides" another. The
> MS> distribution includes an increasing number of packages, which
> MS> don't filter their SONAME Provides when they include shared
> MS> libraries in private paths.
> 
> I recall past discussions about whether these were problematic but I
> never recall seeing any mandate that they be filtered.
> 
> Frankly, these are so incredibly common that I really think it's
> completely counterproductive to require packagers to go out of their
> way to fix broken dependency generation.  Why not fix the dependency
> generator instead?
> 
> All it needs to do to fix up most of the issues is not look outside
> the standard library paths.

... and any rpaths specified in any binaries in that package.  Oh, and
any rpaths specified in _any_ binary in _any_ other package.

Maybe not.

- ajax