On 11/07/2014 11:18 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 7 November 2014 13:04, Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> >> In bug 528086 [1] we have a pre-built games package with a soname >> dependency on libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0. The maintainer reports that the >> game works fine without this library, so he doesn't want to add a >> dependency on sdl-mixer. > > Ehm no this is absolutely ludicrously a bad idea. > > If the library is in NEEDED of binary, there is no need that said > binary will run. If whatever package works fine without that binary > being able to run, maybe the binary should not be installed. > > Just shoving this under the rug is preposterous.
Yeah, I figured that we'd get a reaction like this. I just thought I'd start by proposing some sort of compromise, and then let others fight it out. :) -- Thanks, Zac
