[Fedora-packaging] "Explicit requires" and "requiring base package"

[Rex Dieter]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 September 2009, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> rpm may have implicit dependencies on
>> base pkgs (from -devel ones) but these often aren't enough to ensure
>> things "just work".  This falls under the "except when ... necessary"
>> section of the Explict_Requires guideline, imo.
> 
> That's fine, I don't have that strong opinions on it.
> 
> But Explicit Requires also says "When explicit library Requires are necessary, 
> there should be a spec file comment justifying it."  So in other words, 
> libfoo-devel's explicit dependency on libfoo would need such a comment.  I 
> don't think that's the intent.  This could be improved by saying 
> 
> "When explicit library Requires are necessary, there should be a spec file 
> comment justifying it, except in cases that fall under the Requiring Base 
> Package guideline."

Shrug, that should go without saying, imo.  Has there been confusion?

-- Rex