The xorg-x11-xkbdata package originally contained X.Org's xkbdata, but we switched to using xkeyboard-config late in the FC5 development cycle. It was too late to rename the package at that point, so we left it as-is. The package contains "Provides: xkbdata" for the purpose of allowing packages which require xkbdata to use the virtual provides and not have a dependency on the package name. That allows the actual data to easily move from package to package in the future, thus futureproofing things - or so the theory goes. Of course that relies on everyone actually using the virtual provides. ;o) Anyhow, now that FC6 development is underway, we are renaming the package now. The virtual provides will remain as is, so any packages requiring "xkbdata" should continue to work properly. If however any packages hard code the old package name, they will need to be updated to use the virtual provides instead. Note that similar strategy is used throughout all of the X.Org modular packaging, and packagers should always use a virtual dependency on modular X items if one exists already (ie: xdm, xfs, Xorg, Xnest, Xvfb, individual binaries present in various apps/utils packages, etc.). This helps to futureproof everything as much as possible, and while in a perfect world the packaging of things shouldn't really change much, nobody's planned on it changing and it has changed 4-5 times over the last 2-3 years, so using virtual provides/requires for this stuff now, helps to save everyone headaches in the future. I just thought I'd give a quick heads up now in the unlikely event that something breaks due to incorrectly specified dependencies. ;) Thanks in advance. TTYL -- Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * http://mharris.ca Proud Canadian. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
