Re: [Helidelinux-devel] Dependency management for software packaging

[Hui Z. <zh...@wa...>]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:40:09PM -0500, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 1. Manual expression of dependencies is not interesting. People
>    Conclusion: all dependency management has to be completely
>    automated.
> 
> 2. Even automated dependency management is generally wrong. The most
>    Conclusion: dependancy data can be used to provide hints and
>    advise, but it can't be trusted to be right.
> 
> strace -efile -f, then analyzing the results to find all files

> tree, I'll do a strings -a; of the resulting strings, those that are

It is oriented for a binary distribution. I need more thinking or
learning to make approprate comments.

I am thinking about how to heruistically determine the dependency
during or before build time. They may not be robust enough to trust,
but can be used save 90% of time of human.

Thank you for sharing the idea. 

-Hui