Orbit - Package Manager - Specification/ideas

[Johannes Pfau]

Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>On 2011-07-19 12:33, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> Seems like rpath could indeed work in this case. I can't find much
>> documentation about it though. Debian recommends not to use it:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue but I'm not sure if this problem
>> applies to orbit.
>
>The problem mentioned on that page is:
>
>A problem arises when binary A defines a NEEDED dependency on
>libraries B.so.1 and C.so.2, while library B.so.1 depends on library
>C.so.1
>
>How is this handled when rpath isn't used and in general?
>

To be honest, I don't know. I'm not even sure if I understand the issue
with rpath at all, but I thought I'd better mention it.

-- 
Johannes Pfau