FC-4 Extras buildsystem breakage details

Chris Weyl cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
Wed Feb 22 22:08:35 UTC 2006


On 2/22/06, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> I don't think there's a need for such a special case.  Packages simply
> must not provide things they don't really intend to "export".

Along those lines -- I'm pretty sure there is no way to tell rpm to
exclude auto-found provides directly, but would capabilities like this
help?  E.g.  a NoProvides: tag that rpm could use to filter the list
after the autoprovides scripts run.

                          -Chris




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