On 1/12/06, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Currently in Perl packages rpmbuild detects what modules are used and > provided by the package and creates Requires and Provides tags in the > form of "perl(Foo::Bar)". Supposedly there are scripts that can detect > module usage in Python apps as well and can generate the appropriate > tags, e.g., "Provides: python(kid)". I'm just wondering why Fedora isn't > taking advantage of this. Because, up until now, no one wanted to mess with sorting out upstream's inconsistent naming schemes. Perl works wonderfully because everything you see in CPAN follows a nominally unambiguous grammar whereas in Python, anything goes. But, the script on the mandrake archives might be the way around this, I dunno. -- -jeff -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
