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		massysett on June 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribu... This could easily be simply because Pacman doesn’t do as much as apt. For instance apt tracks symbols exported by shared libraries. Pacman doesn't.

viraptor on June 16, 2019 [–]

I've never heard of that. In what situations is that tracking used?

Conan_Kudo on June 16, 2019 | [–]

As far as I know, only RPM-based package managers do symbol tracking at dependency resolution time. Neither Debian nor Arch package managers do this.

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