RPM roadmapping

[dragoran]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, dragoran wrote:
>
>> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>>
>>> Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes 
>>> of (Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always 
>>> wanted to do with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: 
>>> what you always wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you 
>>> out of your mind? 
>>
>> arch requires and provides ... to end the endless multilib 
>> discussions ;)
>> should be automatic until the packager say Requires: foo.arch
>
> I wish it was that simple...
>
> Sure, being able to say "Requires: foo.arch = version-release" would 
> help in many cases, but it does not *solve* the multilib problems.
>
> A big offender here is the x86 architecture with i386, i486 ... etc 
> subarchitectures. While most packages are i386 there, the assumed
what about being able to say foo.i?86