On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:10:31PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi Fedora people!, > > I have been reading > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires. > > It says that we should avoid explicit requires... > > I want to make sure that I understood it. Is an "explicit requires" is both: > > 1) A full package: eg: mysql-libs > 2) A versioned library file:libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0 > > So, the right way should be: > > Requires: libmysqlclient.so > > Please fix me if I misunderstood that. > No. Listing a library in a Requires: tag at all is an explicit requires. ie: Requires: libmysqlclient.so is also not allowed. RPM is generally good about discovering what libraries a program needs to run. So it will find that your program needs libmysqlclient.so.16 and create a Requires on it automatically. You do not need to list it in your package if this is the case. -Toshio
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