On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:26:19PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
Hi,
A package I maintain (mc) has two rarely-used python scripts.
Since they have #!/usr/bin/python header, build machinery automatically adds python dependency.
But I don't want this to happen - the program is very much usable without python too. Requiring python pulls in a top of other stuff which isn't needed.
Are those scripts installed into /usr/bin ? If so then, IMHO, removing the python dependency is not appropriate, regardless of whether the scripts are used frequently or not. Splitting them out into a sub-RPM might be a more suitable approach.
How can I suppress this in the specfile?
AutoReqProv seems to be a too strong medicine - I would like to blacklist only python dep.
You can filter the provides/requires with a regex:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering#Fi...
Daniel