Dependency generators

Josef Stribny jstribny at redhat.com
Thu Mar 6 15:40:41 UTC 2014


Hi

> * Currently, unless we cleanup all gems, the provides/requires in RPM
> will be duplicated. One set will be provided by the generator while the
> other will come from the .spec file. I opened ticket for RPM [2]
> requesting post-filtering of requires/provides, but this is not gonna
> save us. On the other hand, duplicated provides/requires should cause no
> harm.

It will be a little ugly, but it should work.

> * We will need to learn how to filter/adjust the automatic
> requires/provides in some cases. This should be probably documented in
> guidelines as well.

I think there needs to be a possibility to change those auto-requires/provides
if necessary, but overall I really like the idea of dropping this explicit requires,
it was just a duplication anyways.

Josef


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