Direct or indirect libdependencies (using the libintl.so.8 case)

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Alex Dupre <ale at FreeBSD.org> (from Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:35:13 +0200):

> Alexander Leidinger ha scritto:
>> The best solution would be to fix the ports to not link explicitely to
>> indirect deps (by improving libtool and by improving the .pc files
>> for pkg-config). Then we could even switch from recording indirect
>> dependencies in /var/db/pkg/<port>-<version>/+{CONTENTS,REQUIRED_BY} to
>> only record direct deps.
>
> How hard is it? What prevents us in doing it? Later we modify libtool
> upstream, later we could switch to record only direct dependencies.

You should talk with the libtool maintainer about libtool.

Regarding the pkg-config stuff: you just have to determine which libs  
are direct and which are indirect deps for a specific port, move the  
indirect one into Libs.private, and then convince the upstream  
maintainers to pick up this change.

Bye,
Alexander.

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