On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 04:02:33PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > 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 ;-) ? > That would be accurate. I've added a sentence to the Guideline: """ Explicit Requires are Requires added manually by the packager in the spec file. """ Hope that helps, Toshio
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