spm and buildreqs

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Mon May 23 17:13:46 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 18:42 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> >>Think "python --version" and then buildrequiring the correct version by
> >>package name.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Right and I think we agreed that doing that could be banned from
> > packages.
> > 
> 
> There is no agreement here.
> 
> Core uses hacks in several packages that do just this.  It has never 
> been a problem, and it makes it easier to maintain those spec files in 
> the long term because you avoid changes and the behavior is well understood.

You don't happen to have a list of which packages those are, do you?
-- 
        Peter




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