filesystem provides

[Farkas Levente]

On 08/10/2011 10:14 AM, Kalev Lember wrote:
> On 08/09/2011 06:40 PM, Farkas Levente wrote:
>> hi,
>> as i already write there're a lots of dll which still not provided in
>> the filesystem package. now i like to solve this problem.
>> first of all generate a file standard-dlls from wine with:
>>
>> ls -1 /usr/lib64/wine/fakedlls|grep ".dll" >standard-dlls
>>
>> imho it'd be a good practice to only update this file time to time and
>> don't modify anything else.
> 
> This is probably a good idea. Maintaining the list by hand isn't very fun.
> 
> 
>> the comment in the spec is very good about the problems:
>> ============================================
>> # Note about 'Provides: mingw32(foo.dll)'
>> # ------------------------------------------------------------
>> #
>> # We want to be able to build & install mingw32 libraries without
>> # necessarily needing to install wine.  (And certainly not needing to
>> # install Windows!)  There is no requirement to have wine installed in
>> # order to use the mingw toolchain to develop software (ie. to
>> # compile more stuff on top of it), so why require that?
>> #
>> # So for expediency, this base package provides the "missing" DLLs
>> # from Windows.  Another way to do it would be to exclude these
>> # proprietary DLLs in our find-requires checking script - essentially
>> # it comes out the same either way.
>> ============================================
>>
>> the question which one we choose?
>> the first (current ones) or the second (modify find-requires)?
>> i prefer the second (cleaner spec file) but we can do the first too.
>> what's you opinion?
> 
> I'd go with the first option, just because that's the way we currently
> do things. I don't see much advantage doing it one way or the other, so
> it is probably better to just keep doing it the way we currently are,
> to avoid confusing people. Moreover, starting doing it differently would
> break compatibility with older packages, which is something I'd like to
> avoid.

checked in to Eric's svn and waiting for git access to fedora...

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