[Infrastructures] Best/good/non-sucky way to restart daemons when libs are updated?

[Steve Herber]

One of the reasons I like the Gentoo package management system is that
they explicitly document package level dependencies.  Could the Gentoo
package management systems be expanded to solve this problem?

As a side note, I have enjoyed watching the Portage package management
tool on the Gentoo Linux distribution.  The original author took the
BSD ports idea and expanded it to the Linux world and called it Portage.
Portage has been ported to Mac OS X, Solaris, and now back to FreeBSD:

	http://dev.gentoo.org/~citizen428/doc/gentoo-freebsd.html

Anyway, I would prefer a system where dependencies are documented at the
package level, not at the binary/library level.

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Wil Cooley wrote:

> Also Sprach DJ Gregor <dj@gregor.com> on Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:24:37AM PST:
> > You could run "ldd" on each of the daemons and check the update time on 
> > the libraries listed.
> 
> That's a good start, but it would fail to take into consideration
> dynamically-loaded modules, for which there is no solution other than
> explictly listing.
> 
> Wil
>