[Slackbuilds-users] tracking down SBo "dependencies"

[Tim Dickson]

the problem is the optional dependencies. how does a tool know which 
options you like.
Only when such a tool which has your preferred optional deps recorded 
exists, can there
be a way to reverse dep without missing out bits.
regards, Tim

On 01/03/2024 09:38, Petar Petrov wrote:
> there were several discussions about Slackware needing a tool such as
> revdep, to check for issues like this. Search LQ, however, I did not
> find a good solution that just works. I got advice to make my own
> tool, as well as, statements how people use their own "home made"
> tools for this.
>
> -p
>
> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 18:12, Jim <zsd+slackbuilds at jdvb.ca> 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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