[csw-maintainers] Package incompatibility, any suggestions?

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:31:22AM +0100, Roger HÃ¥kansson wrote:
> Philip Brown wrote:
>> nope. direct link.
>> dump -Lv says it is directly "needed".
>
> Well, that isn't so strange, if you link gedit with libX and a function  
> in libX needs libnet, you'll have to put -lnet when you link gedit, and  
> then dump will tell you that both libX and libnet is "needed".
> If you later on rebuild libX without any libnet support, libX will no  
> longer require libnet, but gedit still will...

incorrect. 

that's why we register dependancies the way we do.

dump -Lv 
works differently than ldd.