Greg Knaddison wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something here, but this makes complete sense to me > as it was laid out. > > RPM (and therefore yum) don't have any idea about software installed > outside of their world, so they don't know of any packages that > provide libgds.so. They do know what the requirements of an RPM > package are, so when you ask what php-interbase package requires it > can tell you exactly what it requires. but this is exactly the problem. the .spec file never said that the php-interbase sub-package *requires* libgds.so.. but it generated it anyway as a 'requires'.. so apparently, rpm's automatic dependency-checking *does* check things that are not in rpms..?
