Fw: Re: [MPlayer-users] Distribution Poll (was Re: Want Less Attitude?)

[Andreas Hasenack]

Em Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:16:57PM +0200, Markus Kalb escreveu:
> Any rpm guru out there who could tell me something about changing the
> reguires part of the rpm.spec files ? Mandrake is still using a other

Good RPM packages should *never* require explicitly a library package. RPM
takes care of library dependencies on its own by checking the library's
soname. Good library maintainers[1] change the soname whenever a new
version is incompatible with the previous one.


[1] Read: not OpenSSL, for example.