[Fedora-packaging] Explicit Requires

[Sergio Belkin]

2010/9/14 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:10:31PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>> Hi Fedora people!,
>>
>> I have been reading
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Explicit_Requires.
>>
>> It says that we should avoid explicit requires...
>>
>> I want to make sure that I understood it. Is an "explicit requires" is both:
>>
>> 1) A full package: eg: mysql-libs
>> 2) A versioned library file:libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0
>>
>> So, the right way should be:
>>
>> Requires: libmysqlclient.so
>>
>> Please fix me if I misunderstood that.
>>
> No.  Listing a library in a Requires: tag at all is an explicit requires.
> ie:
> Requires: libmysqlclient.so
>
> is also not allowed.
>
> RPM is generally good about discovering what libraries a program needs to
> run.  So it will find that your program needs libmysqlclient.so.16 and
> create a Requires on it automatically.  You do not need to list it in your
> package if this is the case.
>
> -Toshio
>

Thanks Toshio, can we say that explicit == added by hand ==
non-automagical  ;-) ?

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