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

[Juraj Lutter]

On 06/28/2012 10:43 AM, Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński wrote:
> 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.

Yes. Only direct dependencies.



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Juraj Lutter <wilbury at opencsw.org>