[Fedora-packaging] Re: rpms/haddock/devel haddock.spec,1.2,1.3

[Ville Skyttä]

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 14:31 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> I think, we should implement a policy to make
> 
> * Requires(pre|post)
> mandatory instead of PreReq

-1 for that wording, they are not the same thing.
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-depend-manual-dependencies.html#S3-RPM-DEPEND-FINE-GRAINED

On the other hand, +1 if you mean just that relying on PreReq to cover
scriptlet dependencies is a no-no.

> * To make file deps on tools being used in %pre|post scripts mandatory.

+1 when the tools are really required.  An example when they are not is
eg. the GTK+ icon cache entry at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ScriptletSnippets