On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Following my proposal in > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tibbs/EPELPythonStubPackages which > met with favor from a number of folks, I went ahead and set up four > dummy packages: > > python2-setuptools (in EPEL6) > python2-sphinx (EPEL7) > python2-pytest (EPEL7) > python2-six (EPEL7) As a local convention, I customarily _name_ packages which exist ONLY to satisfy a 'provide' : dummy-packagename and add a provide inside. So named, of course, so that they 'jump out' as dummy placeholders See, eg: ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/dummy-xscreensaver/ where I needed to satisfy 'xscreensaver' for an in satll of several hundred diskless LTSP units, which were were burning up network needlessly -- Russ herrold _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
