[Slackbuilds-users] tracking down SBo "dependencies"

[Jim]

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 16:55 (+0000), Tim Dickson via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

> it is hard for optional dependencies. for hard deps, you can do an advanced
> reverse dependency(full) search on slackbuilds.org

> Personally I keep build lists for the things I use, including optional deps,
> and build flags and other special build instructions.
> It is more work, and when a package is updated one should recheck the deps
> incase they have changed, but it helps, so I rebuild
> all packages that directly depend on the updated one. Occasionally you have
> to rebuild further up the dep tree, but it works
> most of the time.

Thanks Tim.  I do see the value of writing things like this down.  However,
up until the day before yesterday, I had no idea that libheif and vlc would
have pulled in dav1d, so I wouldn't have known to write it down.

Certainly, this is a rare problem, at least in my experience.  Had the
update to dav1d been to 6.1 instead of 7.0, all would have been OK.

Cheers.
                                Jim

> On 29/02/2024 16:12, Jim wrote:
>> I recently upgraded the SBo dav1d, which upgraded the library from
>> libdav1d.so.6 to libdav1d.so.7.

>> Unfortunately, a couple of other SBo packages (libheif and vlc) had
>> references to (specifically) libdav1d.so.6, which caused them to whine a
>> bit.

>> It was easy enough to recompile libheif and vlc after I found the problem,
>> but this got me wondering...

>> Does anyone have an easy way of tracking down this sort of "breakage" which
>> might happen when upgrading an SBo package?

>> Thanks.
>> Jim
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