2010/9/14 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > Thanks Toshio, can we say that explicit == added by hand == non-automagical ;-) ? Greetings -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin - -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
