[Bug 467260] Review Request: mingw32-filesystem - MinGW base filesystem and environment

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--- Comment #3 from Jason Tibbitts <tibbs at math.uh.edu>  2008-10-17 15:02:08 EDT ---
I'm not understanding how this package can possibly provide things like
"mingw32(kernel32.dll)" if it only contains directories, a text file and some
shell scripts.  The comment says:
  # These are actually provided by Windows itself, or Wine.
but since this package doesn't have any dependency on, say, Wine, I don't
understand how having the dependency in this package actually helps anything. 
Is there any documentation about this?  The guidelines only say  
  If a package contains binaries which depend on a DLL provided by another 
  package, these dependencies should be expressed in the form:
    mingw32(foo.dll)
but that doesn't actually talk about what should provide these symbols.

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