Re: [pacman-dev] implement .so dependencies?

2010-02-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.02.2010 01:39, schrieb Allan McRae: > I will have a decent look into that patch later, but I still think it is > a bit of a false sense of security. > > e.g readline-6.0 and readline-6.1 both provide libreadline.so.6. > However, building bash against readline-6.1 and running against > readli

Re: [pacman-dev] implement .so dependencies?

2010-02-03 Thread Nagy Gabor
Finally, this would prevent proper upgrades to partially complete rebuilds. That is fine for some users who would like such things, but the people doing and testing a rebuild would have issues. I upgraded the libpng/libjpeg rebuild packages while there were still several packages needing to be r

Re: [pacman-dev] implement .so dependencies?

2010-02-03 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Nagy Gabor wrote: > > Packagers should know what they are doing... Moreover, I can also support > adding some more sophisticated dependency switches (maybe hidden from > end-users), if needed. (Personally, I don't like that I can't turn on > resolvedeps with -d. I

Re: [pacman-dev] implement .so dependencies?

2010-02-03 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2010 10:27:43 schrieb Thomas Bächler: > I get the feeling that you are desperately looking for reason to not > implement a feature that is obviously a necesity. I like the idea of adding sodeps and soprovides. Ideally they should be even added to the db files so tools coul