On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:10 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
>> I am asking because the rpm documentation leaves quite a lot to be
>> desired. If I went and changed all my "Requires: foo" to "Requires:
>> foo%{_isa}" in all my non-noarch packages, would I be plain wrong, or
>> is it justifiable - albeit an overkill?
>
> the only place I recall seeing recommendation to use %{_isa} is in subpkg
> dependencies.
>
> IMO, It's wrong to use in general, unless you have good reason to do so. Do
> you?
Well, if I did, I'd know why it was a good reason and we wouldn't be
having this conversation :)
> Another alternative: don't make -devel depend on the main package (which is
> ok for headers-only situations like this)
That's a good point to discuss with the upstream developer as well,
because I think he intends the libraries to be shipped (and work) that
way.
Thank you for all that Rex!
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