On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:18 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > The new rpm in rawhide adds ISA provides (ie the (x86-32) stuff") > automatically for all non-noarch packages (including subpackages), all > that's needed is rebuild. So every package rebuilt since rpm 4.5.90.x > landed in rawhide already has them. > > The main use-cases for this feature are: > a) -devel package dependencies on other -devel packages > b) BuildRequires > c) manual dependencies for plugins and such Which kinds of problems does this solve? So far I don't see any. Conversely, AFAIU all this does, is to add more incompatibilities, more rpmdb entries, all for information which already is hidden somewhere else. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging