On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 01:46:48PM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > > > The proper fix is to convince upstream to dynamically link at runtime > > > and disable some features if libgpgme is not available. > > dlopening a dependency is bad: for example, it doesn't allow distro > > builders to track the deps properly and with the symbol granularity. > Perhaps. But that is simply a matter of tooling. ... not really. > And this is specifically a distro issue, not a behavioral correctness > issue. We distro makers reserve the right to guide upstreams into writing software that can be packaged properly. And for non-distro uses they already have tooling, it's called conditional compilation. > we will never get a significant following of upstreams willing to use > dlopen when appropriate. Of course. -- WBR, wRAR
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