179663 2007-05-24 16:58 0000 dev-libs/libassuan installs only static libraries 2007-06-13 08:09:10 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 flameeyes@gentoo.org crypto@gentoo.org flameeyes@gentoo.org 2007-05-24 16:58:07 0000 As per summary, libassuan installs only .a (archive, static) libraries, rather than shared objects. This is usually against policy; even if the usage of static library is reasoned, there are packages depending on libassuan at runtime, but being only static, they should only depend on it at build time: [18:54] <Flameeyes> !rrdep libassuan [18:54] <jeeves> dev-libs/libassuan <- app-crypt/dirmngr app-crypt/gnupg app-crypt/gnupg-pkcs11-scd HTH, Diego alonbl@gentoo.org 2007-05-24 17:04:22 0000 There was a discussion of this in upstream. Thread at: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2006-December/023462.html What do you recommend to do? flameeyes@gentoo.org 2007-05-25 10:23:37 0000 Debian has a policy much similar to us, so I'd say follow whatever they are doing; in this case, they are not using a shared library either, so until libassuan devs release something that is stable and supported as shared object, libassuan should be moved from RDEPEND to DEPEND. alonbl@gentoo.org 2007-06-13 08:09:10 0000 Fixed. Done waiting. Thanks.