[pacman-dev] [PATCH] add support for .so dependencies

[matthewbruenig at gmail.com]

Therein lies a bit of the paradox of this kind of testing. Smaller packages  
really shouldn't need this kind of a check because a packager should be  
able to identify the dependencies necessary for a small package. Only the  
bigger packages that have dozens of dependencies would really be  
significantly aided by this. But for those packages, the feature would have  
to be disabled.

Shouldn't namcap just do this and the packager can go back and fix his  
missed dependencies?

Also I do agree that it decreases readability of PKGBUILD, the blackbox  
argument above.

Just my thoughs.

On Aug 15, 2009 10:13am, Christoph Schied <Christoph.Schied at uni-ulm.de>  
wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 02:51:15PM +0000, matthewbruenig at gmail.com wrote:

> > When I worked on zenwalk's buildpkg which is basically a port of  
> makepkg,

> > we had something like this to find dependencies. It is painfully slow on

> > applications of any significant size. Not a good idea.



> I think it shouldn't that much of a problem, thats what we have split

> packages for, and one could disable the feature for big packages

> (thinking of texlive and that stuff).





> greetings, Christoph Schied