Multilib Middle-Ground

[Rahul Sundaram]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Paul Howarth 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?
>>
>> Yes, they are and the third party packages have no excuse if they are 
>> deliberately disabling the automatic dependency mechanisms.
> 
> It's not that simple. VMware does this for a simple reason: they want a 
> single RPM that works on *all* distros. Essentially it's like static 
> linking (except they don't, they just ship their own dependencies). 

They might just do that. A package that ignores all dependencies isn't 
very useful regardless of the motivation behind it.

Rahul