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-rw-r--r--pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
index 847349818..c28ea7463 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py
@@ -439,7 +439,10 @@ class LinkageMap(object):
In some cases, not all valid libraries are returned. This may occur when
an soname symlink referencing a library is in an object's runpath while
- the actual library is not.
+ the actual library is not. We should consider cataloging symlinks within
+ LinkageMap as this would avoid those cases and would be a better model of
+ library dependencies (since the dynamic linker actually searches for
+ files named with the soname in the runpaths).
@param obj: absolute path to an object
@type obj: string (example: '/usr/bin/bar')