On Thursday 23 October 2008, seth vidal wrote: > Yes - if the pkg provides something it requires then the requires can be > removed. > > A simple addition to the rpmbuild process to remove these items from the > requires wouldn't hurt. When I suggested this on rpm-maint a little over a year ago, there were some objections because that would render rpm's --filerequire less useful/correct than it is today. Maybe it wasn't implemented because of that or just because of lack of manpower at the time. http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-maint/2007-July/001578.html The objection is valid per se, --filerequire would suffer (but not become entirely useless). I wouldn't personally mind inflicting some inaccuracy into it if the gains are large enough. I got a 7.3% decrease estimate in overall number of dependencies in Fedora which should be order-of-magnitude correct (see above post for more details). But if this can't be done in rpm(build), it probably can in createrepo as I don't think something like --filerequire is (or even can be) implemented in any tools using the metadata. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
