On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 2:14 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? > Mostly stuff in /usr/libexec and /usr/lib(64). > 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? > For packages I maintain in Fedora *itself*, I don't need to do this, but for packages I maintain *outside* of Fedora, I *must*. > 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. > Yes, I know. I've looked at the metadata myself before... The fact that I can't get openSUSE to properly fully enable the Python module dependency generator (that I maintain upstream in rpm!) after almost two years of trying should be indication enough of how difficult what you're asking really is. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
