Detecting shared library problems

[Derek Atkins]

Robert Graham Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net> writes:

> Thanks for the correction.
> 
> Debian can do package-based library dependancies automatically,
> meaning there's never any problem figuring out which package you need
> to install a library, and allowing Debian's package front ends to go
> and easily grab all the dependancies required to install a package.

Yea.  The major problem is that an RPM can depend on, say,
libg-wrap.so.0, but you might have no idea which RPM actually supplies
that library.  Worse, if you have incompatible librarys with the
same SO-number, you lose.

I do wish RPM would get better automation.  I think they are working
on it.

-derek
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