P.S.: i think it is no good to exclude things like especially openssl from 'Depends on:' i would hope for the now maintained prt things to test for missing dependencies for especially openssl. If one does a git grep -i 'depends o' | grep openssl | wc -l you see a chequered picture, even in core/, but i claim that only those which do are right. Ie i have forgotten what the policy is, but if it was "not needed if part of the basesystem" then this is no good, especially since not all programs are so loud and clear like postfix is: Apr 24 20:16:04 outwall/smtpd[1402]: warning: run-time library vs. compile-time header version mismatch: OpenSSL 3.3.0 may not be compatible with OpenSSL 3.2.0 (this from server running AlpineLinux). Ie "prt-get dependent X" should get you going to avoid such actual incompatibilities, in my humble opinion. So for example libarchive has OPTION(ENABLE_OPENSSL "Enable use of OpenSSL" ON) (for checksums and such, ie, one would really, really want this even) and links all the things, but will not be recompiled automatically. Ciao, and greetings from Germany, --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)