On Tuesday, April 14 2009, Seth Vidal said: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Tom Lane wrote: >> Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Matthias Saou wrote: >>>> +# We'll need to find a better way to do this once RHEL6 comes out >> >>> A "better way" that I use is: >>> BuildRequires: /usr/include/tcpd.h >>> Works everywhere. >> >> I think this is discouraged by guidelines because it makes the depsolver >> work *much* harder to figure out which package the require actually >> resolves as. At least I know I've been told to avoid it when practical. >> >> Of course, maybe fixing that is just a small performance fix in rpm ... > > It doesn't make the depsolver work harder. It makes the user/builder > download all the filelists metadata to do this look up - so it is a pain > for users on slow/bad connections. That said, for a BuildRequires, it's not terrible. If you're looking to build, you're already going to be downloading a lot and the filelists are kind of a drop in the bucket. I think the guidelines are pretty explicit about it being discouraged for regular requires and not buildrqeuires, but it's been a while since I looked at that chunk Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
