FC-4 Extras buildsystem breakage details
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Feb 23 15:50:47 UTC 2006
Ville Skyttä (ville.skytta at iki.fi) said:
> > > 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".
> >
> > However, attempting to filter provides by turning off RPM's
> > internal generator and using scripts removes multilib tagging
> > and similar features.
>
> ...which is an example of why a better way to do it, like the
> NoProvides: tag as suggested by Chris in this thread and others
> elsewhere (eg. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/126878), is needed.
Yes, just saying that there's no good way to do it *now*. :/
Bill
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