On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 04:50 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Panu Matilainen > <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Remi Collet wrote: > > > >> Jason L Tibbitts III a écrit : > >>> > >>> I've seen packages using Requires(hint): and testing shows that > >>> currently this is handled no differently from a regular Requires:. > >> > >> Using this have one usefull purpose : documentation. > > > > Abusing bugs in software for documentation purposes? Lets not... > > It works well for me, so I will continue to "abuse" the "bug" for > documentation purposes. > > My personal opinion is that this thread is making a big deal out of nothing. Provided what you say: +1 to Tibbs' initial proposal on banning Requires(hint) Rationale: It's undocumented, error-prone pollution to spec files, which is likely to show harmful effects once rpm/yum/apt etc. should start support it. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
