Multilib Middle-Ground

[Les Mikesell]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Stripping of pathname-based and package-name based dependencies I can 
>>> understand, but not the library deps.
>> Are they the same across all RPM based systems?
>>
> 
> The library deps sorta have to be. The deps come out of what the program
> is linked to.
> 
> as an example run:
> ldd /usr/bin/xterm
> 
> and look at what it outputs
> 

VMWare-server should probably be split into two packages.  Only the 
console portion needs the X libs and you can run it on a different 
machine, a different OS, or not at all, so it wouldn't make much sense 
for a run-time dependency for that part to prevent installation of the 
rest of the server.

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   Les Mikesell
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