[Bug 457035] Review Request: libproxy - A library handling all the details of proxy configuration

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--- Comment #14 from Nicolas Chauvet (kwizart) <kwizart at gmail.com>  2008-10-20 10:15:17 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> Basically, the idea is this:
> 1. set the build deps so that all plugins are built
> 2. tell rpmbuild to ignore the dependencies in the plugins
Here we stop!

That's perfectly possible to have rpm to ignore Dynamic Shared Object
Dependencies, the question isn't here. 

Here is the case corner:
libproxy is built with all the current dependencies for plugins (let's mention
NetworkManager or mozjs and etc). Later NetworkManager or mozjs are updated but
with an incompatible ABI. In This case, the interface with libproxy will
collapse, unless libproxy is rebuild (for all the dependencies.)
On the contrary, when vlc will be updated from 0.9.x to 1.0.x, the ABI with
libproxy will be preserved. (and then vlc can even be downgraded from 1.0.x to
0.9.x on specifics needs for end-users ; without even thinking of untracked
dependencies).

So the perfect answear we can do from the point 2. is:
"Don't even think about it!"

Now there are two ways I can see for having libproxy packaged.
- Split the package with all plugins. (specifically thoses that have special
dependencies ). Thus it will lead to use comps.xml so the -gnome package will
be installed by default once the "Gnome Desktop Env." group is selected.
- Move the code from libproxy-%{project}, to the %{project} itself. (the
preferred Method, IMO). This can avoid to have unexpected behaviours unknown
from the related $project developpers. 

Then we could even consider libproxy to be available in /lib(64) instead of
/usr/lib(64).

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