On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:30 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Ville Skyttä (ville.skytta@xxxxxx) said: > > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 15:09 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > > > I could see an argument for checking to make > > > sure that a new extras package does not provide duplicate provides as > > > packages in the standard build environment. > > > > I don't think there's a need for such a special case. Packages simply > > must not provide things they don't really intend to "export". > > However, attempting to filter provides by turning off RPM's > internal generator and using scripts removes multilib tagging > and similar features. ...which is an example of why a better way to do it, like the NoProvides: tag as suggested by Chris in this thread and others elsewhere (eg. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/126878), is needed. -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
