Caution! Bad SONAME Provides

[Peter Jones]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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.

I don't think we /really/ care about the "rpath's in other packages" 
case.  If the other packages need firefox's copy of zlib, they should 
require firefox (or at least the library directory it's dropping in?)

-- 
   Peter