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Description of problem: The gpsd package should have its shared libaries split out into separate binary rpms that the main gpsd binary rpm then depends on. There are two reasons for this: (1) Anything which depends on libgps (eg. kdebase-workspace) will otherwise require gpsd - which gets started on detection of certain USB serial ports and then sits there hogging them (bug 752923). (2) This may break on a system with multiple arch library variants installed (say x86_64 and i386) because both the 64-bit and 32-bit binary rpms have an overlapping binary (gpsd). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gpsd-2.95-6.fc15.x86_64
This was done in F16, but I'm not sure if we should split it in F15 so late in its life cycle. Could it break a package which needs gpsd but now depends only on libgpsd? What do you think?
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