Caution! Bad SONAME Provides

[Peter Jones]

Jesse Keating wrote:

> The question I have is why can't we teach the provides finder to be smarter 
> about things that are outside the standard path?  Why fix this in N* packages 
> instead of the source?

There is effectively no standard path.  find-provides can't know if some 
other package is Required: but not BuildRequired: and drops a file in 
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/ .

-- 
   Peter