HEADS-UP: New shared library versions coming soon

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 23 July 2005 05:27, Richard Todd wrote:
> libchk (/usr/ports/sysutils/libchk) is a nice Python script that automates
> the "ldd on each binary" bit and gives you a list of .sos that aren't being
> used by anything.  You do have to eyeball the list before doing a mass
> purge of any unreferenced .sos, as there are some apps (Mozilla/Firefox is
> one IIRC) which have .so files which are loaded by the program as needed
> but which don't show up as fixed dependencies via ldd.  Still, the libchk
> list ought to at least give you a starting point.

You could probably extend it to use /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS to exclude stuff 
like that (ie things explicitly referenced by a port).

No, I don't have a patch to make it do this :)

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