Re: Shared library dependencies revisited

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

Ian,

We can make your proposal simpler by using virtual package names to
find the libraries.

Each package that provides a shared library should, for each shared
library that it provides, automaticaly add something like
"Provides: libX11.so.6" to the control file. Each package that depends
on a library should automaticaly add "Depends: libX11.so.6" to the
control file.

If you want to know about the executable format, you could prepend
"elf-i386-" to the library name.

	Thanks

	Bruce