Re: python skills and bug 2412

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>]

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 13:53 -0600, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 8:03 AM, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> wrote:
> > A proper use for RPROVIDES is for something like gtk+-directfb to
> > RPROVIDE gtk+. If an app linked against one, it should be able to run
> > against the other (I'm assuming thats the case, if its not there
> > shouldn't be an RPROVIDES).
> 
> I've tried this, and you have problems with the apps already being
> linked not only against libgtk-2.0.so.x.y.z, but also the closure of
> the dependencies which it had at link-time. So if the X11 version of
> Gtk was staged at the time your app linked, the references to
> libx11.so will exist its its binary.
> 
> Is there some way to suppress this eager resolution of transitive
> shared library dependencies?

To be honest, I don't know, its not something I've looked at before.

As Paul mentions, the shlibs code will also cause the package's
Dependencies field to become hardcoded. If the binaries have references
like you mention, that sounds like its currently doing the right thing
really...

Cheers,

Richard