On Thursday, 04 October 2007, at 10:59:22 (-0400),
Jeff Johnson wrote:

>  Right next to the mechanism for filtering internally generated soname
>  dependencies in the PLD patch, is a means to map all dependencies back
>  to package NEVRA.
> 
>  The rationale for the mapping (as far as I understand) is to simplify
>  finding the name of the object that contains the provides that satisfies
>  a require.
> 
>  WIthout getting into semantic usage cases (e.g. whether soname and
>  file dependencies are a good or a bad idea), I ask
> 
>      Should the mechanism be added to HEAD?

If the mechanism is clean and completely dynamic (i.e., no external
maintenance required and done automatically at build time), I'd sure
like to see it.

Michael

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