FC4 perl module upgrades/cleanups

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Jeff Johnson <n3npq at nc.rr.com> said:
> Adding
> 
>     %define _use_internal_dependency_generator 0
> 
> is very much the wrong thing to do with any package that includes 
> elf32/elf64 modules.
> 
> And there is loss of functionality if/when 
> %_use_internal_dependency_generator is used
> for any package, as dependencies are not attached to files.
> 
> The mechanism was intended to to assist bootstrapping multilib, not for 
> serious packaging usage.

So how do you override bogus auto-generated dependencies?  For perl
modules, it is not practical to have to patch out bits of code that
won't be called on a particular platform just to avoid invalid
dependencies.

I suggested a "NoRequires:" for RPM a while back but got shot down.
AFAIK the only way to do it today is to use the above %define and filter
things out.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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