On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 14:50 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Brian Long (brilong@xxxxxxxxx) said:
> > > emacs requires fonts-xorg-75dpi, which requires chkfontpath, ttmkfdir,
> > > etc.
> >
> > Alright, Bill, thanks for looking those up. So tell me why rpm lets me
> > remove chkfontpath without complaining :-)
>
> If I had to guess, fonts-xorg-75dpi has:
>
> Requires(post): chkconftpath
>
> i.e., it only requires it in the post script. Since it's not a
> generic runtime dependency, it lets you remove it once the fonts
> package has successfully installed.
>
> (This means that the next time the font package gets upgraded,
> chkfontpath, etc. will get reinstalled...)
I downloaded the .SPEC and verified. You are correct. I've been
writing RPMs for a while, but didn't realize you could specify Requires
(post) or Requires(postun). What is the point? If it's required for
post and postun, why not just make it a requires so dumb end users like
me don't remove the other RPM like chkfontpath? :)
/Brian/
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