On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:55:37AM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: > I must admit that revdep-rebuild is one of gentoo's weak points. Ideally > non-security bumps would just leave the old so intact and then there would be > a better mechanism (ie faster > and more reliable) for updating packages that depend on it in the proper > order (order might not even matter as much with the old so still around). > Then the old so would removed > only once it was no longer needed. A database of so dependencies would > probably make this work if it were tied in with portage's database of package > dependencies, but I won't > suggest that this is a trivial task (which is probably why it hasn't been > done yet).
It's worth noting that RPM tries to do this -- when an RPM is built, all .so's that its binaries link against are listed as deps. I wouldn't say RPM's gotten it right, either. It doesn't help that lots of software doesn't do shared object versioning right :( Dustin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
