rpm --redhat-requires, rpm --redhat-provides

[seth vidal]

Hi Everyone,
 I don't want a flamewar, just opinions.

Are there a lot of people who use the two commands listed in the subject
very often? I ask b/c there has been some discussion of minimizing the
number of copies of the package metadata from the installation.

comps.rpm and rpmdb-fedora take up considerable space and now would be a
good time to discuss removing them for FC4.

if yum or some other command line tool were to be able to return the
same data from the xml metadata, instead of the comps or rpmdb-fedora,
would people be willing to use those?

Thanks
-sv