On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 10:10 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 13:46 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Instead an analysis would show why
> > packagers used this method and whether we can offer better workarounds
> > for what they wanted to achieve.
>
> In the Eclipse SDK package set, we recently went through the
> multilib-ification process. We had to add a few file-level dependencies
> to get this to work. This was due to the inability to specify %{arch}
> in a Requires. How would this have been better accomplished?
>
> Ben can probably explain this better than I can.
Honestly, this is the only valid case for file-level dependencies I can
think of, and unfortunately, the only way to work around it is to fix
rpm to permit %{arch} specific Requires.
~spot
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