How to remove auto generated python dependency?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:37:40PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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.
> 
<nod>  -- If this is a Fedora package, then a subpackage is definitely the
way to go.  Filtering out a dependency that is actually present would be
introducing a bug.

-Toshio
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