RPM roadmapping

[Peter Jones]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:13:32 +0200
> Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> 
>> And what insane spec files produce dangling symlinks?
> 
> A large amount of -devel packages have .so symlinks that are dangling
> within the -devel package itself.  However rpm is smart enough to
> figure out where that link is pointing to and add a hard requires to
> that file.

Speaking of which, handling library paths better would be nice.  Right 
now if you say "provides: libxpcom.so" you'll satisfy dependencies for 
things, whether that library is in the linker path or not.

Kindof complicated to get right, unfortunately.

-- 
   Peter