On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:46:02AM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 20:32 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:08:28AM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote: > > > The answer is that "Requires: htmlview" is a *package* level > > dependency, while "Requires: /usr/bin/htmlview" is a *file* level > > dependency. Cool that RPM supports this, I don't think it's possible > > in some other software management systems. > > > > So that means that the first case only works as long as the package > > name stays the same. The second case works no matter if the binary > > moves to a differently-named package (which happens F12 -> F13). > > Thanks Paul > > I sort of suspected that, but I hadn't realized RPM was so smart! I was > also a little spooked by xdg-utils because xdg-open, which Publican uses > when generating the .desktop file, doesn't work quite the same as > htmlview and can lead to some undesirable results. John, I hadn't looked too closely at the underneath part of the RPM beyond the content working and opening. Does anything in the RPM actually *use* /usr/bin/htmlview to run anymore? If not, we probably should just switch the requirement to xdg-utils. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
