rpm dependencies and duplicate provides

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 18:05:51 +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:

> > perl items are also ok. This might look differently if we look at
> > require dependencies e.g. from Fedora Core Extras and then check
> > which deps might have duplicate provides within rpm packages
> > to find maybe real problems with our current deps.
> 
> With a quick hack to not look at package with the same name,
> I get the following output for a check across FC-devel and
> FE-development/i386:
> 
> ('perl(GtkDefs)', 32776L, '1.00') ['glibmm24-devel', 'gtkmm20-devel']

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Initial thought here was: Then the automated Perl "Provides" checker is
too limited, because there is not much sense in adding a virtual provides
in perl(...) namespace for a Perl module outside standard Perl search
path for Perl modules: /usr/lib/gtkmm-2.0/proc/pm/GtkDefs.pm