On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 22:16 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > nautilus has an explicit dependency in the spec file on gnome-vfs2-smb. > It does not have any apparent dependency on libsmb.so that is provided > by gnome-vfs2-smb (nothing seems to have such a dependency). If I don't > have any need to browse Windows networks, why do I need the software > installed? libsmb.so is dlopen'd, so no ldd dependency. > Features are great; _required_ features are not. The reason for a Requires here (and in similar cases) is to suck in gnome-vfs2-smb when anaconda upgrades a system. Comes up with some package in most releases, and there are a fair number of Requires: that exist purely for that reason. Havoc
