On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 21:23, Aaron Griffin<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Thomas Bächler<[email protected]> wrote: >> Pierre Schmitz schrieb: >>> >>> What do we learn by this? The use of provides can be dangerous when the >>> providers have different deps. I wonder if we have more such problems. >> >> That's why namcap should use direct link-level dependencies using readelf >> and not rely on the fact that a dependency already provides the library in >> question. > > Actually, this would probably help us in a lot of ways - it'd make > finding deps for rebuilds easier
I completely agree here. Could we please change our default policy to always include direct dependencies (checked from readelf output) even if another dependency already pulls them? -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
