[csw-maintainers] Transitive dependencies: do we add them or not?

Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński maciej at opencsw.org
Thu Jun 28 10:43:32 CEST 2012


Suppose we have a binary foo, which needs libfoo.so.1, and only
libfoo.so.1. Then we have libfoo.so.1 which needs libbar.so.2. We get:

foo (in CSWfoo) → libfoo.so.1 (in CSWlibfoo1) → libbar.so.2 (in CSWlibbar2)

My understanding is that we should, as a rule, add a dependency from
CSWfoo to CSWlibfoo1, and from CSWlibfoo1 to CSWlibbar2, but not from
CSWfoo to CSwlibbar2.

Is this correct?


More information about the maintainers mailing list