[Done] Transition from aaa_elflibs to aaa_libraries.

[Papasot]

This is not strictly a problem but could be in the future, and probably needs Dimitri's attention (which I am guessing it already has, but I post this just in case).
Since today (8 February), Slackware-Current renamed aaa_elflibs to aaa_libraries. The reason for such a rename is related to aaa_glibc-solibs, which is not part of Slackel anyway, so the change is basically pointless for us. Nevertheless, it can potentially be a problem in the future.
Currently, normal system upgrade keeps aaa_elflibs installed and aaa_libraries uninstalled. Attempting to manually install aaa_libraries is ok, but trying to uninstall aaa_elflibs is not, because that would also uninstall a ton of packages. This is clearly because of dependency resolution, which still refers to aaa_elflibs. So I guess all *,dep files must be changed. Now, I am not an expert, but I am guessing a simple

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sed -i 's/aaa_elflibs/aaa_libraries/g' *.dep

followed by regenerating packages lists should suffice, but of course I am not sure. At any rate, Slackel users don't have to do anything, for now. Normal system update will work as it is.

[djemos]

I have update the dep files. And i have also create a con file so when user update the system the aaa_libraries will installed since is a dep in many packages and aaa_elflibs will uninstalled.
Otherwise user can run sudo spkg -d aaa_elflibs after upgrade to manually remove aaa_elflibs. Remember never uninstall a package from gslapt gui because will uninstall all dep files also. Always uninstall a package from command line using spkg or removepkg.
Thanks.

[Papasot]

I don't really use Gslapt. I used it in this case just to verify that aaa_elflibs was still a dependency (and it was, but not anymore). I had no intention to remove aaa_elflibs via Gslapt, just to check what if I did. Alternatively I could look at packages list file to see if aaa_elflibs is a dependency.

The *.dep files were indeed updated, and aaa_elflibs is history in Slackel too now. I did update my other Slackel systems too, and that removed aaa_elflibs, plus it installed aaa_libraries.