revdep checks for broken *.so, so it would not matter whether your deps were optional or not. People running -current, who install stuff from SBo, would greatly benefit from such a tool.
regards, -p On Fri, 1 Mar 2024 at 12:16, Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org> wrote: > > the problem is the optional dependencies. how does a tool know which > options you like. > Only when such a tool which has your preferred optional deps recorded > exists, can there > be a way to reverse dep without missing out bits. > regards, Tim > > On 01/03/2024 09:38, Petar Petrov wrote: > > there were several discussions about Slackware needing a tool such as > > revdep, to check for issues like this. Search LQ, however, I did not > > find a good solution that just works. I got advice to make my own > > tool, as well as, statements how people use their own "home made" > > tools for this. > > > > -p > > > > On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 18:12, Jim <zsd+slackbui...@jdvb.ca> wrote: > >> I recently upgraded the SBo dav1d, which upgraded the library from > >> libdav1d.so.6 to libdav1d.so.7. > >> > >> Unfortunately, a couple of other SBo packages (libheif and vlc) had > >> references to (specifically) libdav1d.so.6, which caused them to whine a > >> bit. > >> > >> It was easy enough to recompile libheif and vlc after I found the problem, > >> but this got me wondering... > >> > >> Does anyone have an easy way of tracking down this sort of "breakage" which > >> might happen when upgrading an SBo package? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> Jim > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SlackBuilds-users mailing list > >> SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org > >> https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > >> Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > >> FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > > SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org > > https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > > Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > > FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > SlackBuilds-users mailing list > SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org > https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users > Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ > FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/ > _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
