On Oct 15, 2007, at 11:57 PM, Michael Jennings wrote:

>
>>  The lookup is clean, completely dynamic, done automatically, and
>>  completely obscure. Will work fine for building in chroot's like
>>  PLD, but will have the usual problems of lack of precision using
>>  the open-ended versionless
>>      Requires: foo
>
> Ick.  This will completely break the moment a major shared library
> version changes.  So this really solves nothing at all...it just
> shifts the problem from one spot to another spot, and in fact makes
> the end result a lot worse.
>

The generated dependency may well be
     Requires: foo = V
but there are problems no matter how a package only dependency is  
generated.

73 de Jeff