[Fedora-packaging] dangling symlink vs file dependencies

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 2 July 2015 at 16:40, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "VO" == Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> writes:
>
> VO> I find the file requires better describing what my package needs and
> VO> find them more robust. So I'd like to use them.
>
> You really shouldn't.  Unless the repodata format has changed so that
> downloading file lists has gotten fast, file-based dependencies that
> aren't in a few select directories require additional metadata downloads
> which sucks for end users.
>

... and mirrors :).