Re: providing what they require

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On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:22 -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:16 AM, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > No, I meant if you added an explicit require for an item that the
> > package provides. Stop that.
> 
> Two of my packages appear in the list.  One is mona.  It provides a
> handful of libraries, which have dependencies between them; i.e.,
> library 1 is linked to library 2 which is linked to library 3, etc.
> So every library but the top-level one appears in the automatically
> generated Requires.  The other is check.  I have no idea what is going
> on there.  If anyone has a clue, clue me in, please.
> 
> Isn't part of the problem that /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires doesn't
> filter out the files it examines from its result set?  That seems to
> be what is happening with mona.

Yes! And that's what I was suggesting be fixed.

I was also asking packagers to make sure they are not accidentally
setting an explicit require that they don't actually need.

that's all.

-sv


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