rpm -q --whatrequires foo lies
Jay Cliburn
jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Fri Aug 4 12:37:46 UTC 2006
Paul Howarth wrote:
> Jay Cliburn wrote:
>>
>> Naming a package "foo(bar)" seems pretty odd to me. This is the first
>> time I've run across it.
>
> The package isn't *named* that, it *provides* that. A package can
> *provide* much more than just its name, and rpm uses those provides for
> dependencies just like it does with package names.
>
Aha! Thanks for the explanation Paul.
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