On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 01:47:19PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > As someone who has to package for multiple distributions, I would > oppose any attempt to cripple DNF to stop supporting file dependencies > properly. I *aggressively* use file dependencies to avoid having to > litter my spec files with package name dependencies across RH/Fedora, > SUSE, Mandriva/Mageia, and others. Do you have examples outside of /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin? Also, if you _are_ using arbitrary file dependencies, that renders the other part about opportunistic download of these deps kind of moot, since they'll have to be frequently, right? Again, I'm not kidding about 95% of the dep points being filenames. It's huge! I don't think that's a good price at all to make everyone pay constantly for packaging convenience. Better to convince packagers to put in cross-distro "Provides" or something. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
