Better dependency checking in pacman

I'm often quite unhappy when I install some software and then getting errors like the following everywhere else:
error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Ok, it usually means that I need to upgrade the whole system. But not only some packages could not be rebuilt in official repositories yet, but also this mistake can ocasionally lead to broken pacman (or ssh, or any other vital component of the system).
I guess it can be fixed. And I have two ideas how to fix that.
First way is to extend dependency checking. In perfect world all packages should write in their dependencies maximum version of package that is needed for this particular package. But almost always we don't know future. It could be fixed by downloading an additional file for already installed package, which says that this particular version of package is not compatible with versions of dependency starting from specified. That dependencies might then be used just like native dependencies of that package. These additional dependencies can be tracked both by hand and automatically (using ldd, namcap, whatever).
Second way is add freebsd-like dependencies on files for packages. So when packages are removed (upgraded) pacman could check if somebody relies on this file.
Probably file list could be maintained by makepkg using something like ldd internally. But may be file dependencies could be used not only for dynamic libraries.
Any thoughts?

But there are plenty of problems:
1. I want to setup a new little program. Am I supposed to wait to a full system upgrade?
2. There are no drivers for ATI video for current xorg server now. Do I need to add ALL dependencies of old catalyst to IgnorePkg recursively? Or I need to add xorg-server only and hope nothing will break?
3. Am I supposed to rebuild all packages from AUR after upgrade?
4. Seems there are lots of topics with such mistakes in this forum.

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Let's say I have two Z table, one is master table and one is transaction table.
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Edited by: Hung Kai, Michael Cheng on Nov 3, 2008 5:29 AM

Hello,
For this u need to change the cardinality.
Below are the list of cardinalities and their functionality.Chack it and use the proper one.
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