Using symbolic links to reduce package dependency problems

[mistfire]

Tackling package dependencies is one of the hardest task on installing applications on Puppy Linux.

I suggest that the PPM must the user give an option to scan library files on /usr and /lib for dependencies. if the target library name is found but the version is higher than the required by the package (example libfoo.so.0 is required but there is libfoo.so.1 on /usr/lib) then create a symbolic link for it (libfoo.so.0 >>> libfoo.so.1). This method will reduce the package dependencies upon installing packages on Puppy Linux.