[Fedora-packaging] "Explicit requires" and "requiring =?iso-8859-1?q?base=09package?="

[Ville Skyttä]

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."