ermoIkey Doherty [BST/UTC+1]: I'm wondering if, with the new systemd approach, where some deps are optional and captured as those special ELF notes, we should perhaps introduce strong (buildtime-deps w/"normal" linking) and weak (buildtime-deps w/dopen() linking) dependencies...?
basically "required" vs. "recommended" at install time.
And then become really good at finding and then annotating undeclared dlopen() linking stuff?
And then help upstreams with getting it integrated in their code-bases/build systems...?
knowing about the undeclared stuff and accounting for it will likely help re. being able to synthesize a dep-complete rebuild graph and effectuating it.
Ikey Doherty
Well that requires us writing dlopen wrappers for them
Ie typedef the symbols etc
Not entirely convinced it'd be difficult to generate those in C from rust by examining a target .so
(...) i haven't got the bandwidth for it atm
but that could be a pretty slick thing down the future, an auto optional dep wrapper thingy