Dependency generators

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 6.3.2014 16:40, Josef Stribny napsal(a):
> 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.

Of course there is a way [1], we just have yet no experience in what
cases we will need it.

Vít



[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering